  Mill (1969 [1861]), whilst endorsing Bentham’s overall Utilitarian position, did not share his scepticism about moral rights, and seems to have thought that moral and legal rights were, analytically, closely connected — “When we call anything a person’s right, we mean that he has a valid claim on society to protect him in the possession of it, either by the force of law, or by that of education and opinion.” Those things which ought to be so protected were, in his view, those which concerned the fundamentals of human well-being, and were therefore a sub-set of those things which a person ought to have on grounds of utility.