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    It is not the case that A right's correlative duty generates a claim on conduct, not a threat of force; the duty's bindingness is conceptually separable from any sanction that may back it.

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    • 1.Without enforceability, duties remain purely aspirational; bindingness requires real consequences for non-compliance to generate genuine obligation.
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    • 2.Rights-correlative duties in practice depend on legal systems with enforcement; claiming conceptual separation ignores how duties function institutionally.
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    • 3.Psychological bindingness requires credible threat; pure rational claims fail to motivate most people absent institutional backing or sanctions.
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    • 1.Moral obligations exist independently of enforcement mechanisms; a parent's duty to their child binds them even without legal sanction.
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    • 2.Sanction-dependent bindingness conflates motivation with normativity; that coercion makes us comply doesn't explain why we ought to comply.
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    • 3.We distinguish between justified and unjustified duties regardless of enforcement; distinguishing duty from sanction preserves this distinction.
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