[gruez]

>drivers licenses and passports having a photo requirement too

You're free to take the bus, or hire a chauffeur. A private pilots license doesn't have any pictures either.

[hammock]

For better or worse, we didn’t have to make such hard choices for the first 80 years of aviation. And Greyhound etc require photo ID these days as well

[asteroidburger]

A US pilot certificate itself does not include a photo, but you must have a photo ID to use it. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/part-61/section-61.3#p...

[ornornor]

That’s not a freedom. That’s a restriction that reduces the amount of choices you have for potentially worse ones.