I don't include kowtowing to agents of the state as an indication of responsibility.

Why is it kowtowing? Past taxpayers paid for the roads. The roads are a group thing and have group rules. To use the shared resource, you need to do so safely. The group decided to have agents verify you know how to do them safely. They use licenses and registration as the mechanisms. If you don't agree with the group rules, buy some land and an ATV and drive alone on your own resources without endangering others.

I get libertarian values, but arguing against licenses and registration and calling it tyranny and kowtowing is strange.

Roads should all be privatized and paid for by tolls (or whatever private mechanism), not registration. Registration costs have little bearing on how much you actually use the road and are about the worst example of measuring how much is owed for wear etc; I'd argue your very argument is about why registration is the worst possible way to pay for roads and needs abolished.

> To use the shared resource, you need to do so safely.

You can do things safely without being licensed or registered. In fact I'd argue having a driver license is almost "proof" you'll be unsafe by your standards, since the majority of licensed drivers are batshit insane on the road (and you made the statement about "the group" aka majority being the decider of the state of something)

>The group decided to have agents verify you know how to do them safely.

I did not elect any of those "agents." And I'm pretty sure the "group" that voted for licensing of vehicles in my state is dead and in the ground, like the guys who voted to keep slaves. Also not a fan of the idea 4 guys of the 5 vote to break their own legs, so all 5 have to do it. I see public roads as breaking my own leg, by busting the free market for roads by creating a violence imposed subsidized government system. You create this subsidized system that destroys the market for private market roads where a license wouldn't be required, and then you say "well see, you don't need a license on private property but we destroyed through subsidies the market that would allow those roads to freely compete HA HA!"