Animals with no advanced cognitive abilities or social structure wouldn't be able to tell the difference between good and evil. Likewise, a low level goodie who is starving to death in a certain mountain and decides to kill a couple squirrels for food shouldn't be damned and penalized 5000 experience. 
squirrels and damnation.
ROFLMAO! That's happened to me so many times too...
What kind of bastard kills a squirrel.
They've got to be the coolest animals in the world. I just wish I could catch the fast buggers.
Wait untill you play a good invocker....
He makes a valid point.
SQUIRRELS, RISE UP AND DEFEND YOURSELVES!
I used to hunt squirrels with blowdarts, why am I playing goodies?
LMAO. to be honest, i think a squirrel has more capability of being good than a sapling 
there are definitely some off the wall good aligned mobs here.
What's stranger is you actually learn from cutting down a sapling.
There is this (hide)ing specter in chapel that i once killed with turn undead on my healer.
You can imagine my amazement when he died...
What's stranger is you actually learn from cutting down a sapling.
That's nothing, but wait till it hits back!
Maybe they're baby-treants/ettins?
Hey inscribed--awesome player.