Still, it’s 2018 and very little surprises me this days when it comes to people wilfully mis reading posts.
You realise you're on PPrune, right? That ability of some to misrepresent your arguments has taken years of toil to finely hone!
Totally agree we should recruit from a wide range of backgrounds while concentrating on the "right" person to the extent that it's possible to do so. Having flown with several of the
wrong types of people slipping through an imperfect QF recruitment process (we all know who they are), I can say with certainty that it's neither a personally pleasant nor an operationally easy experience! Also it became obvious to me early in my QF career (through my own biases which I had to quickly discard) that it's not possible to confidently predict the "right" and "wrong" type of person solely on their aviation background, so no one pilot demographic should get a monopoly advantage in the recruitment process.