Your statements here don't make sense; first you're saying 400 ore in one shot isn't enough and second you're saying you can't compete with obsessive carpet-weavers. If I only use 400 ore with carpet and you use 800 ore without carpet in the same time period, then it is you who are the larger drain on the resource availability.
It doesn't matter how many resources I take, because they will actually be used for something.
If I kill something with something made with the resources in TC then it's cool, I did my part for PVP, if I die, well, someone else will take the stuff and keep using it for what it was meant to be used for so either way the ore went into something meaningful.
That gives me free pass, they might as well give me the mines...