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Old Jun 11, 2006 | 9:27 pm
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Originally Posted by J-M
Sure you have a right to travel around the country. You do not have a right to use the services of a privately owned airline to fly on their privately owned aircraft.
So you agree then that air travel is a right?

I agree with you that you don't have a positive right that you can enforce against airlines (i.e. you cannot make them give you a seat on a plane). I do think there is a negative right to air travel (meaning that the government cannot take it away without some reasonable due process).

Same thing with free speech - you have a negative right to it. You can't force anyone to listen, but you also can't lose it arbitrarily at the whim of a government clerk or bureaucrat.

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