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To move a bit on from the others and security status. It is worth noting that the entire game is PVP. The only place where you aren't indirectly or directly interacting with another player is the mission system. Every other part of the game you are interacting or at least impeding other players. Everything you do is at least preventing another player from accessing the resource.

As an example, let's look at the classic non PVP activity of mining. Mining is a race against others to get all the asteroids before they are gone. Sure, you didn't directly kill anyone, but those asteroids you destroyed are gonna be gone for at least a few days. Thus preventing access to them by another player. Meanwhile, some enterprising gentlemen are trying to steal the ore you are creating. Once you get the ore back to the station, someone else is buying the at vastly under the going rate but offering local pickup. A third girl is offering a kings ransom if you drive the whole pile of stuff over to the bad side of town and drop it off at pirate central. You decline both offers and decide to set up a sell order for a reasonable rate. You make money

That is non PVP in eve, only three people tried to screw you over. You screwed over some smaller miner by strip mining an asteroid belt, made some money selling the loot to other players. You avoided an attempt to screw you by the market, one by a theif, and an obvious pirate trap. But nobody shot at you. No one declared war on you.

Good times.