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    A promisee has a right against the promisor — Carmelics
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    A promisee has a right against the promisor

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    • 1.The function of a right is to further the right-holder's interests
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    • 2.Promisees have an interest in the performance of the promise, or an interest in being able to form voluntary bonds with others
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    • 1.Rights correlate strictly with duties owed to the right-holder, but promissory duties may be owed to third parties or moral norms, not the promisee.
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    • 2.Scanlon's 'Principle F' grounds promissory obligation in reasonable expectation-management, which generates directed duties without necessarily conferring correlative rights.
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    • 1.Interests sufficient to ground a right must be weighty enough to impose obligations on others, per Raz's interest theory threshold.
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    • 2.A promisee's interest in performance is often trivial or replaceable, failing to meet the threshold required to generate a duty-imposing right against the promisor.
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    Interest theorists disagree. Interest theorists maintain that the function of a right is to further the right-holder’s interests. An owner has a right, according to the interest theorist, not because owners have choices, but because the ownership makes owners better off. A promisee has a right because promisees have some interest in the performance of the promise, or (alternatively) some interest in being able to form voluntary bonds with others. Your rights, the interest theorist says, are the
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