The biggest problem, as I see it, is that Bombers are very good at taking Capital Ships and therefore, after the big nerf on the big Transports, 5kers are way too vulnerable.
I am not asking you to fly a certain loadout, but this just seems a way to appease your conscience. If it tickles you too much, don't pull the trigger.
To these silent Traders, it isn't going to make a difference, to them, whether you kill them on the first shot or the second one. The end result is the same.
I don't even bother trying to outrun a heavily armed Bomber, as it is generally a waste of time. Just pay the Pirate. He goes away happy with his 15 million and you go on Trading (or he gets to shoot the Trader and goes away happy but muttering about afk Traders and the Trader just ends back at square one, less the credits he originally spent).
'I would like to be half as clever as some people like to believe they are' Life is full of disappointments, it is how we handle them that helps to define us, as a person