Warnings

I don't like to hurt my subjects. As a consequence of this, whenever the game gives me a task to spank them, I spend a lot of time not doing that. I try to go out of my way to locate someone who likes feeling pain (or hire one of my researchers, they'll tolerate mistreatment as long as I pay them) and then I spank them and they object. Now that I feel bad about it, it's even harder to do the next time it pops up.

Suffice it to say, having an option to give a friendly heads-up to inform the subject that I'm about to do something they may not like would be appreciated. Then they can object before I do something and feel bad about it! And at the very least, they'll be prepared for it.

Obviously, having a dialogue option for every single possible action would be a bit much. Simplest solution would be to have two warning options -- one friendly and one unfriendly -- and they just tell the subject that they might not like what comes next. More complicated solution would augment these two options based on the interaction you're preparing to do.

Is this dumb? Maybe. Am I a softy? Yes.