Twinkle, twinkle, little star...

[Switeck]

The same problem exists to a much lesser degree for shooting abandoned pirate ships. They bailed out, but you still get a kill for killing their ship. While in that case you probably "earned" the kill for "encouraging" them to bail, that too can add up if you are lucky enough to stumble across abandoned pirate ships in a system that just had an Anaconda and its 6 Cobra 1's come by.

[Dave McRoss]

Well, IMHO it's fair. I mean, I receive same one kill for a Dragon or for a Worm.
In the great picture all is balanced.