[BUG?] Parts destruction counts as ship kills?

[Metran]

So I've been claiming ships from the Fallen Families faction; each and every time I destroy Engines, Turrets, Shield Generators and such on Destroyers/Capitals it keeps messaging that about Reputation hit and gives "Unauthorized kill" as a reason, even though I have not killed anything (yet)... So is this a bug or is it intentional, if so, would it not be better to just give a reason like "Unauthorized Attack"?

[xuancong]

Yup, I also realize this problem. According to the developer, some reputation lost is big, some is small. Hopefully, the game can display the actual fractional amount of reputation lost incurred. Otherwise, since engines and turrets get repaired constantly, if every time the player destroying them will incur a big reputation lost, then it is a headache

[leoriq]

I think we need separate rep hit here, something in between attack and kill.
But AFAIK in the current state of vanilla rep hit from destruction f parts is compensated by lack of rep hit for aggressive acquisition.