My point of view of "no scent" villages - often it seems to mean that if something happened another group would do your dirty work for you.
The whole village has to be held accountable for the actions of villagers, if they do not take action against the individual villagers they are complicit. I remember in w6 some lawspeaker who was stealing in trades, I convinced his villagers to open their gates to me since they had no idea what he was doing, so I could kill him and recover my friend's silver. Thats probably the correct response if you consider yourself peaceful, tbh.
I consider myself pretty peaceful in some sense, though.