Maybe. One or two are vocal about ethics, but the player rules survey indicates that the ethicals are a minority in the WM community.
That’s good, and the survey indicates that most don’t follow other players rules anyway.
The lowbie made a choice to WM on for benefits. That’s risk v reward. Most players have no problem killing lowbies, even if they don’t necessarily do it themselves.
True WPvP depends on the individual player’s definition. My view is that it’s anything goes, if it can be done do it. Others see True WPvP as community rivalry between guilds, and anything less is not True WPvP. Or small scale 10v10 battles is true WPvP, or large 40v40 is, city raids. Or 1v1, or 40v1.
It’s player perception, just as with the ethics rules. And to me, that’s one of the great things about this game mode, can be played how you want.
PvEers can be reduced in WM with PvP activity. It’s like natural selection, there are as many PvEers as the PvPers tolerate. The real problem, is not killing enough questers and resource gatherers. In between doing that ‘job’, there can be good fights with WPvPers.