Not trying to bang on the war drums here, but during my time poisoning Gas trees in Ix, it dawned on me that my character should no longer feel guilty about poisoning a tree.
As we do certain actions repeatedly, our avatars should be conditioned to the debuffs (and buffs for that matter. his jaded response.)
I was also thinking about how like we could specialize in harvesting certain trees, and choose to be antagonistic against others. For example, I would be specialized at spice trees (+1 per harvest, +2 mood, +1 exp) for harvesting it. But, I get -1 when doing any other tree. For Gas trees, if I harvest, I get 1/2, and suffer severe mood loss because it's bothersome to harvest them. Additionally, I can poison gas trees without guilt. If I poison a spice tree, it would cause instant full poison guilt debuff.
I'm not sure where other places can receive the classical conditioning treatment, but I am still hoping for a butchering skill.