I dont think that is what people are saying at all. Just that professional quailifications be recognised by both sides. Fine, if JAA were to insist on an exam on the differences between the JAA licence and others, I just cant see the point or sense in re-doing something that you have already sat and passed.
"How secure in your job would it make you feel, knowing that everybody can do and is doing what you are doing?
Would you still have the same passion for it?"
Plenty of helicopter pilots around. The jobs go to those who have the experience, and to those who have made the effort to further themselves.
I still have a passion for what I do, the number of other pilots flying has no bearing on that.