DIDR is about prioritising
‘development’ over human rights and relies on utilitarian argument to justify forced resettlement. Preventive
resettlement has a stronger ethical basis as the State is breaching the rights of some to choose where to live, based on
the duty to protect children of current inhabitants, to consider its social contract to protect, if not improve, the lives
of the entire community of those living in a hazard prone regions, including generations yet unborn.