You can F1 out also, so it's not what you can do, it's what should be allowed.
Look at it like this is a RP server for instance, how are those bats and bots getting from one ship to the other in the middle of that battle? Are there transporters built into the ships?
Isn't it more realistic that things that are traded are dropped and tractored in, and trading is just a game mechanism? If that's the case then in a battle trading should not be used, but jettisoning and tractoring would be more in line with RP, right?