With the addition of 1h personal grind, the karma system needs tweaking.  Now if it's outside of that 1h personal grind could you remove or greatly reduce the karma penalty?

Since the people who don't want to fight and only want to grind for a small amount of time uninterupted have an hour to grind in peace, they are likely the people who also do not want to PvP.  Since they get to grind for 1 hour, there should be a way for people who like PvP to break up the grind to be able to do so without having to worry about their karma getting nuked after 2 fights.

There is a solution: play on Arsha.