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    An owner has a property right because ownership makes the owner better off

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    • 1.The function of a right is to further the right-holder's interests
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    • 2.Ownership makes owners better off
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    • 1.Rights can be grounded in autonomy and agency rather than welfare, as Kant argues that rights protect rational self-legislation regardless of benefit.
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    • 2.An owner may hold a property right even when ownership makes them worse off, such as inheriting a liability-laden estate, which severs the welfare-right link.
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    • 1.Nozick's entitlement theory holds that property rights derive from just acquisition and transfer, not from whether ownership improves the holder's condition.
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    • 2.If welfare were the basis of property rights, rights could be overridden whenever redistribution would produce greater aggregate benefit, collapsing rights into utilitarian calculus.
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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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