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The personal and political

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  A wide pool of people at the receiving end of evil, often termed as necessary, may well be accommodated in the idea of development; only if ideas can accommodate people and development can accommodate evil.  Since development is abundance, a developmental economic idea reflects on the problem of scarcity, from the sense of abundance. It imagines generating abundance from the situation of scarcity. A little more should be discussed about such a development.  Maybe a Buddha could imagine abundance from scarcity. He may reflect on the problem of abundance from the sense of scarcity. But he is no development economist. If Buddha were an economist reflecting on the problem of gainfulness from the sense of development, he would argue that a wide range of pleasures at the receiving end of our admiration, may well be termed as noble pleasures, meaning a positive socio-personal reflection of our emotional desires. Human neglect to those admirations and subseq...