As ghastly as it may sound to some, surgeons throughout the ages have known that oftentimes, one must "cut in order to cure." When a body is diseased, there may be, in some cases, little option other than the surgical knife. Call it being cruel to be kind, but the surgeon's main priority is to save his patient from certain death or further destruction. Even if it means dismemberment.

Now that we have that out of the way, let's view the human body as a hierarchy within an organisation. The topmost position (the head) would be occupied by, for example a chief and his right hand man, or minister and his deputy. If we imagine these two people as the left and right hemispheres of the brain, we must also agree that the two must complement one another. Never must one go off at a tangent, or start behaving detrimentally or independently of the other.

If such a thing occurred, a whole set of problems, including schizophrenia may set in, resulting in symptoms such as grossly disorganised thinking, delusions or auditory hallucinations, often leading to social or occupational dysfunction (paraphrased from Wikipedia).

And as we move further down the body, the hierarchy would correspondingly descend in order, with the middle part consisting of less important people and the feet comprising an assortment of the lower ranks such as subordinates, minions, lackeys or even in some instances, riffraff.

In order for the body to function at the optimum best, all parts of the body (or the hierarchy within an organisation) top to bottom must function correctly, and this can only be possible if all of them are in tip top shape. The moment rot and disease sets in, steps must be taken immediately to cure.

There are no two ways about this. Ignoring the symptoms would be disastrous. Hiding them would only make things worse, eventually. Waiting for the problem to go away is like waiting for a bomb to go off. If we wait too long, the rot eventually takes over the body, slowly but surely, and starts eating away at everything, including the healthy parts of the body as well.

To solve a crisis or avert further harm, one often has little choice other than to cut, in order to cure.