The whole of life is a series of lessons. You either learn them or you have to redo the course over and over again until you do. This is not going to go away because we do nothing. It will return to haunt us all if we stand back, as checkmate says, arms folded and watch a fellow professional go down because some power-hungry, arrogant office wallah takes it into his head to sack him over loss of face.
I say again, it is not the individual that concerns me - he has made the causes and should pay a price, but the price is way too high. There is a principle here and we ignore that at our collective peril.