The Utopianist planner must make man fit society

I'm reading Karl Popper's 1944 essay 'Piecemeal Social Engineering' in which he constantly compares the piecemeal social engineer with the utopianist holistic planner. One of the many distinctions he makes is that the PSE tries, bit by bit, to make society fit the real men and women who happen to live there, but the UHP tries to make his fellow men and women fit the society he dreams of.

By way of a break, I clicked over to the hpc website and had a look at some of the FTP allegations coming up in the next few months, and straight away found this one:

1. In the course of your employment as an Occupational Therapist by Super-Duper Hospital NHS Trust, between 19 March 2007 and 14 June 2007, you undertook work elsewhere whilst on long term sick leave and whilst receiving statutory sick pay.

2. The matter set out in Paragraph 1 constitutes misconduct.

3. By reason of that misconduct, your fitness to practice is impaired.

It's not that I think that someone who works for money whilst receiving stat sick pay should go un-remarked, but I do think that it is silly to say that it means, ipso facto, they are not morally fit for the work they are qualified to do. It's clumsy, brutal, and out of proportion with reality - Utopian, in a cold, harsh, petty, nasty sort of way.