Yes he "stole" the pads, but since he cleared it with amazon pr beforehand, it's the same type of "stealing" as when I grab a bunch of fries from a friend's plate during dinner.
On a side note: I find it hilarious just how many people seem to think he went there on a whim, and not after getting an okay by amazon including a few talking points from them for the video and some pr person walking him around etc.
Yeah, it's not that people are dumb in general I think, it's that they're intellectually lazy. It's easier to just jump down someone's throat for an apparent lie or mistake than it is to try and think logically about how something like this would happen, what the other person's thought process might've been and what they might know that we don't.
I think pretty much everyone is guilty of this once in a while. But we've reached a point in our culture where we don't acknowledge and take responsibilities for mistakes anymore. To use the other example from this video; they called him a pathetic virgin, then they found out that he had a wife and kids. Then instead of backing off and rationalizing it as just a silly plot point in a video, it was suddenly about him being a bad husband and father. Then it shifts again and suddenly it's about him (and by extension the whole tech industry) not employing enough women.
Of course, all these people are different people (except one notable "anti-cis" girl), none of them individually continuing and moving the narrative. But none of them admit to their mistake and their rash words either, it's "drive-by" twittering. They look at the "case" superficially, unilaterally decide that Linus and "all tech nerds" are terrible chauvinist scum, and then they move along, forever tainting an entire "class?" of people in their minds. Of course, the irony that this is precisely the type of thinking they hate the "patriarchy" for engaging in apparently lost on them.