 However, the interest theory is also misaligned with any ordinary understanding of rights. We commonly accept that people can have interests in x without having a right to x; and contrariwise that people can have a right to x without having interests sufficient to explain this. In the first category are “third party beneficiaries” (Lyons 1994, 36–46). You may have a powerful interest in the lottery paying out for your spouse’s winning ticket, but you have no right that the lottery pays out to your spouse. In the second category are many of the rights of office-holders and role-bearers (Jones 1994, 31–32; Wenar 2013b). Whatever interest a judge may have in sentencing a convict to life in prison, the judge’s interests cannot justify ascribing to her the power to make such a dramatic change in the convict’s normative situation.