I agree with ICARUS's sentiment, however the issue at the moment is that we are pushing the limits to the extreme. When I started flying professionally certain GA compaines required 1000 hours total before they even looked at you to fly a 210. Kendalls used to need 4000+ hours for a interview to 'be competitive'. These days we are talking about commands at 1500 total time....
The question is do we really want a 1500 hour pilot PIC in RPT with a 200 hour cadet FO? If they had a fatal accident I can see right now what one of the contributing factors that will be mentioned in coronial. They will then point to America and say if the biggest user of aviation in the world is increasing the minimum experience why are we decreasing ours?