And I think it is utterly lunatic to compare giving away a bloody corn muffin to communistic redistribution of wealth! It is a completely over-the-top reaction to what this man did. And it makes conservatives look like fools and creatures out of Charles Dickens. (I’m not saying that you are either a fool or a Scrooge, btw.) And, if you google, you will see that this has turned into a pr disaster for this company.
Actually, the principle is exactly the same: I will be generous and compassionate with YOUR money. The fact that people have been able to smear the company for firing a thief does nothing to alter the underlying principle.
In every job I have ever held, it is a firing offense to take so much as a paper clip. This guy is a apparently an habitual thief. I disagree from you, I believe the company has the right to and in fact a duty to fire thieves.