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    Rights are not grounded in the right-holder's choices — Carmelics
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    Rights are not grounded in the right-holder's choices

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    • 1.The function of a right is to further the right-holder's interests, not to protect choices
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    • 2.An owner has a right because ownership benefits the owner, not because the owner has a choice
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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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