What is the purpose of beginners' licences?

Ham Radio is a technical pursuit and is distinct from
"CB Radio" which latter is the name for the hobby for those
who buy their rigs off-the-shelf and send them back to the
shop if ever needing repair.

Radio Hams are qualified to build and operate their
own equipment, and a (admittedly rudimentary) qualification
is needed. However, that qualification is easily passed
by otherwise-unqualified self-taught 14-year-olds who
have the right motivation. Indeed, anybody with the
right motivation would not find it to be a hurdle, and
so if anybody did so find it, then their suitability
to be a Radio Ham would be called into question.

As such 14-year-olds have shown themselves for years
able to pass the exam at that level, what need has their
ever been to reduce the standard below that of the
mental age of a 14-year-old?

What need therefore, to introduce examinations that
not only can 6-year-olds pass after two days tuition,
but that intellectually-challenged abusive social
misfits of adult years are incapable
of passing? Such adults couldn't even pass the
test of a 14-year-old, so it was completely
pointless to make them look even stupider by them
being unable to pass a test aimed at 6-year-olds!

Yankland had a Novice Licence for some years, and
it has now been discontinued. There is no reason
to have any other similar beginners' licences
anywhere in the world.

In Britland, the M3/CB Fools' Licence scheme has
proved to be a gangrenous degeneration because, where
there has been the natural lifeblood of technical
people, that blood has been cut off, and those
people put off, by the insulting requirement for
them to sit an examination at the kindergarten level.

It is time for self-respecting _REAL_ Radio Hams
all over the world to petition their respective
governments to have these simpletons' licences
abolished. After all, what grown man would want
to known as someone who has struggled to pass
an exam aimed at 6-year-olds? None at all! What
grown man would want a photograph published of
him grinning with pleasure that he's passe an exam
aimed at 6-year-olds? None at all!

If 14-year-olds can do it, then anybody sufficiently
well motivated to be a Radio Ham can do it.

If nothing else, the gratuitously insulting and
grossly offensive posts to these NG by those who
hold the licences and by those who promote them
(Including, most disgracefully, the master
instructor for the scheme in Britland)
suggest that such people are not now and cannot
ever be considered to be part of the gentlemanly
traditions of Radio Hammery.