There should be no sympathy for the treatment meted out to Mr Fred Goodwin. Through a combination of vanity, greed and sheer incompetence, he presided over the biggest banking disaster in British history, to the great cost of the taxpayer and the British economy, and showed no practical contrition for having done so. The fact that his behaviour was simply the most egregious example of a culpability shared by many other bankers is neither here nor there. There are occasions when an example needs to be set, and this is one of them.
弗雷德?古德溫(Fred Goodwin)的遭遇不值得同情。由于他的自大、貪婪和無能透頂,導致了英國歷史上最嚴重的一場銀行業災難,令納稅人和英國經濟付出了慘重代價,而古德溫對其所作所為沒有表示出絲毫悔改之意。古德溫的行為只是其他許多銀行家同樣難辭其咎的最極端例子,這一事實并不重要。有時候我們需要樹立一個典型,而古德溫就是這樣一個典型。