The Amazing Adventures of Alanowski

I've been reading and teaching quite a few Christmas songs and stories of late. We have a show coming up and the kids have to do a little play and sing a Christmas song of some type. I have realised that most of the stories are based on terrible ethics by the protagonists.

For example: The Shoe Making elves.
One morning an elderly couple who own a struggling cobbling business, wake up to discover that someone (or something) has broken into their shop in the middle of the night. They find beautiful new shoes, whose quality is far superior to the lackluster offerings they usually make.

Instead of trying to get to the bottom of the mystery by: A - Calling the police and reporting a break in, or B - Attempting to find the culprit(s) so as to either scold them, or offer them a paid job with the shop; they decide to just sell the shoes and pass them off as their own work. I view this as terrible ethics (theiving even). It is not until after the couple become rich off of someone else’s work, do they decide to find out what had been happening. Upon the discovery that it had been small elves making the shoes, they make them dinner and some clothes. First of all, the cost of the clothes and food would be far below the remuneration due to them for the number of elf hours they put in. Second of all, who wants poorly made offerings from these talentless octogenarians?

Don't get me started on those F*^&*^% reindeers! What a bunch of yes quadrupeds! It was all - "You can't play in all our brilliant and fun reindeer games Rudolf", and "Rudolf!! You are a red nosed arse head!!” This was until their boss needed some help from Rudolf and all of a sudden he's the guy to know. They are falling over themselves to give him complements and telling him he'll be remembered for ages.*

So what are we teaching kids with these stories? It's alright to steal work and intellectual property from others, so long as they are weaker/smaller than you? It's OK to just attack with cutting jibes one minute, and then suck up to the individual as soon as they get a promotion?

*Unless I misunderstood this and they were still at school : "you'll go down in history" was perhaps a threat regarding what was going to happen to him once he got to Mr. Hay's room.