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Like I said, I'd like to read the wording on that policy.
If he did in fact break a policy rule, they could fire him.
He was representing McDonald's, now we know what they represent, regardless of the situation, follow our rules, and better believe we are going to cover our as s financially in every situation, regardless if your act is heroic or not.

ok...McDonald's has spoken.

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I disagree. Indeed, I think you cannot consider yourself anything but hypocritical to use the cross as your icon and support a 'legalistic' position.

Act Utilitarianism based upon rules that are for the good of the many take precedence over rules that protect the interests of the corporation. The Golden Rule clearly takes precedence. And, there is a long tradition of morality in the US against McDonald's policy.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Jesus Christ

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke

In the first case, you have an order from your God to intervene in a case like this and NOT push responsibility on to the police.

In the second case, McDonald's policy and it's insurance company's policy are contrary to the social contract that is the United States and is thus invalid ab initio.

As a former soldier, I can only tell you I despise people who say, "that's what we have police for", or "that's what we have soldiers for", etc.

If all good men acted each time they saw a wrong being committed, there would not be the need for a single Medal of Honor to be given out. Because everyone in the room would have taken the perpetrator down with every weapon at their disposal.

Personally, I'll have stuck a butcher knife through is throat from about 40 feet...the military taught me to do it to defend my nation in the abstract on foreign shore...I think I'm clearly in the right to do in in the concrete immediate and individual instance of protecting a citizen.

Citizens must expect all corporations operating under US charter to establish policies that are legally consistent with the social contract of our society. Otherwise, the corporate policy is the moral and logical equivalent of an illegal order...and following it is wrong.

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Would you be arguing this if the employee didn't intervene, and the guy who hit the woman had returned with a gun and shot and killed the woman in the store?

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