Originally Posted by
84fiero
You're conflating a
right to travel with
free provision of travel services, which is
not at all what I said. One is free to travel by any means available (with limited reasonable controls of course - traffic laws, safety standards, etc - the extent of such regulation may be a subject for debate). Since the time that airline service began operation, people are as free to travel by air as they are to travel by horse, train, or walking. That doesn't mean the government is provisioning air travel for free, any more than they're providing free hay for horses, diesel for trains, or food to sustain one's energy in walking. The right to a free press doesn't imply the government buys printing presses and paper...the right to bear arms doesn't mean the government is giving out free rifles.
It's still up to us (in a capitalist system) to purchase air travel as with most any other supply or service! That doesn't take away our
right to do so!
You don't buy rights. You are endowed them by birth and by the societal agreement that basic human needs be met. But you don't have a right to any specific mode of delivery or specific means of expressing or engaging in these rights. You have a right to travel, although no mode is specified...it doesn't mean you have a righ to drive, fly, or ride a bus. You have a right to bear arms, although that doesn't necessarily mean guns, you have a right to free speech, although that doesn't mean a publisher has to publish your manuscript.
Airlines have the legal right to kick you off, or deny you boarding. That is not a denial of your rights to freedom of movement..you can still try to go whereever you are going..just not on their plane. There is no violation of rights when you are not permitted to fly.