The perverse ethics of the author were apparent from the start "[I operated in a time] before you had to show ID, sign a slip of paper and answer a battery of q

The perverse ethics of the author were apparent from the start "[I operated in a time] before you had to show ID, sign a slip of paper and answer a battery of questions from the always skeptical supervisor." The offended tone of the author is hardly appropriate given that this batter of questions was designed precisely to prevent scammers like the author, and indeed made necessary by people like him. Anyway, theft is theft whether it's against a large corporation or an individual. I can understand that people don't feel sympathetic towards large corporations since they never seem to be criminally liable when they break the law. However the answer is surely to enforce the law equally no matter who the criminal or victim is?