Yet everyone seems to have assumed that she pilfered cookies. She doesn't care if they assume 0.5 or 1 or 6 or 11. Her pilfering was zero. She is sick and tired of everyone not realizing what a terrific employee she is. She feels wrongly accused and is considering filing suit for defamation of character.
Character is important to elves.
It decided that pilfering elves would be the first to go. A particular elf had never pilfered cookies, but making cookies wasn't lucrative and his twin elflets' 4th birthday was coming up and he didn't have a present. So, one day he pilfered two cookies-one for each of the twins. He wasn't very good at pilfering and got caught. He was fired.