Francis Hutcheson on the difference between “perfect” and “imperfect” rights (1725)
https://oll.libertyfund.org/quote/605?fbclid=IwAR0eQwe4R75bHmvFjsSUFbXGIE5niAfWW_L93glzvLMZmvhd2O-7S79JBQM The Scottish philosopher Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) distinguished between “perfect rights” (like the right to life and liberty) which were so essential that one was permitted to use violence to…