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According to the “fitting response” tradition of thinking about value, good things are those that are fit for favourable responses and bad things those that are fit for unfavourable ones. We can also have reasons to make favourable or unfavourable responses. What, then, is the relation between reasons and fit? One answer is: identity. But that answer faces several problems, including the “wrong kind of reasons” problem. We can avoid those problems by distinguishing the fitness- and reasons-relations. But it seems unsatisfactory simply to treat these as two separate primitives. This paper explores the prospects for treating fitness-relations as more primitive than normative reasons, and explaining the latter in terms of the former.