PilotWeb.org writes:

Flying without a license will often result in death.

This type of exaggeration only encourages people to be reckless. When
they discover that the dire warnings they've heard are all out of
proportion to reality, they start to take a lot more risks, including
risks that they really shouldn't take. The net result is more danger,
not less.

I expect that most people flying without a license are people who have
lost their licenses for some reason, or people who have trained but
been unable to get a license. While neither category is likely to be
filled with stellar pilots, the notion that complete novices are going
to try to fly planes is a bit unrealistic. Most people aren't even
interested in flying a plane, and many are afraid of doing so, so even
if you plopped them in the cockpit and told them to have at it, they'd
refuse.

The regulations stipulating requirements to operate an aircraft under
it's own power are for your own good.

In theory, but they aren't necessarily congruent with reality. Some
of the regulations are good ideas, others aren't.

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