Knowing something about what roads cost... Good luck building more than a mile wirh your money.
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What harm does it do people if someone practices surgery without a license? What harm does it do if someone does the engineering plans for a bridge without a license? What harm does it do if someone sells food without a businees license or health inspection certificate.
Obviously nothing if they're competent, but a license is a means of ensuring minimum competency. Which means the can be insured. Which means if they muck up, someone is there to pay the tab.
Driving on the road unlicensed, uninsured and unbelted makes you a risk to others, as IF you are in an accident, that increases the liability for all the other parties involved. If you are unbelted, they hit you and you die, that is obviously a much different case from both of you surviving and arguing it out in court. If the other party has only third-party liability but no collision insurance and yoi're at fault... Who pays? How do they guarantee payment? And lastly, being unlicensed means there's no way of ensuring you are familiar with the rules of the road. Which makes you an unknown quantity that insurers and law enforcement can't assign risk factors to.
Reminds me of a law in Japan, where you are assigned criminal liability for trying to commit suicide by train. Think of the poor train drivers and sanitation crew...
Again, do what you want on your own time and own land, but driving on roads owned and operated by the state, you follow state rules. They're not there to protect you. They're to protect everyone else from you.
Your freedom ends where another person's freedoms begin.
