If you missed something this important along the way then it's not just your loss, bub, but everyone else's who you choose to fly around. More's the pity for them.
Read the FAA rules again. You DO have responsibilities as a drone pilot of a registered drone according to them, and according to every State in the U.S. if you happen to injure a person or damage personal responsibility with a drone. Stepping up as a self-declared drone pilot forms a social contract with all others which you have willingly entered into. Same applies when you turn 18 and are then legal or obtain a driver's license. By doing so you enter in a social contract that dictates to a large degree what is now acceptable and unacceptable behavior during the activity involved. Go afoul of those rules and you are in trouble.
Moreover, part of living in an organized, civilized society is having enough common sense to recognize and understand the social contracts each of us makes daily and enters into by the choices and actions we make. Gun owners have entered into a different social contract than non-gun owners are held to. When you are sharing public spaces with others by flying a relatively heavy object with dangerous spinning propellors in close proximity to people, you certainly have entered into a social contract that states you will not pose a threat to anyone or anything, that you will be adequately familiar with and MAINTAIN CONTROL over the aircraft, and that you will not be a nuisance to others by your actions.
No,obviously there is no button on your controller to accept this social contract or designed into any Apps. But there just might be one day if drone pilots do not properly handle the limited freedom we have been granted by the Government to fly as we can at the present. If there are too many drone incidents in the future and public sentiment is mounted against them- as can easily be done in America these days - then we could all see our flight privileges negatively impacted. Besides, you entered into this social contract when you purchased your Mavic, registered it with the FAA, and took it someplace that was not your home or property to fly it.
In this nation alone we are a diverse herding species composed of hundreds of millions of individuals with many different personal perspectives and belief systems. The only thing that helps maintain order in this incomprehensible coming together of all of this diversity are the social contracts that are in place designed to establish that order. Much of it, again, is supposed to be common sense learned simply by living among others. But when it's serious enough, then it's relegated to the written word in what we call the Law, which is a higher level of social contract you have entered into by being a U.S. citizen and must adhere to nationwide, unless you're an ambassador from a foreign nation and have diplomatic immunity.
Otherwise, yeah, it exists.
