"For example if the pot is 12 BB on the flop and I have TPTK I'll definitely gamble it up with someone with only 10-20BB behind. With both players at 100BB or deeper TPTK gets far scarier."

Right, and these are the situations that the "campers" with mid-stacks are waiting on...for that mentality.
There's bound to be plenty of the loose aggressive's to want to push the short stacks by the nature of the game...but you'll get the maniacs that you can double up through. Again, back to hmm..do I play tight waiting to pounce, or come in max and play my game...I really am leaning more towards the max stack. I trust my game.