Analogy

If you took a large, flat balloon out of its package and drew squares over its surface, filling those squares with words such as, "motivation" and "behavior" and "attitude" or even "wonder" the balloon remains still, and flat. But stretch the neck of that balloon against a helium tank marked, "passion" and watch as all those squares grow and expand and change as they lift up towards the heavens.

The problem as I see it, with trying to excise a specific passion, is that the requester believes it to be akin to targeted brain surgery - where the scalpel is inserted into a tiny opening looking to cut away just the part which bothers them - assuming passion for all other aspects of life remain otherwise unimpacted.

Sadly, that's not anywhere near how passion works. Once the scalpel touches the surface of that taut balloon, zest for everything attached to it is also destroyed...in an instant.