If we want to preserve the integrity of this eco-system and prevent it from being destroyed by fire, it is essential to monitor the risk of a fire starting. If a fire should start, it will inevitably destroy a certain part of the forest and some trees will be lost.
If the implementation of monetary policy and bank regulation had significant distributional consequences, the operational independence of the central bank would be much more problematic, because distributional issues should be determined in the domain of politics, not by technocrats alone. In contrast, fiscal policy is intrinsically distributional in its consequences.