 But if a person has a right to reparations, he will also often have a right to compensation. This is because his right to reparations is a right to satisfaction for the damages he suffered and such satisfaction often requires that he be made no worse off than he would have been had he not suffered the loss. This does not make a right to compensation the same thing as a right to reparations since a right to reparations can only be generated by damages caused by wrongdoing.