if you take this idea that as long as you follow a well defined moral code and 'believe' it is right than you are playing a goodie is that I can do the same thing and play a badass evil imperial. Goodies are not the only ones that 'believe' or can believe their moral codes are right and actualy follow them.

I agree completely with Wildgirl that there is not enough checks put on alignment, yeah, some people try and RP out remorse for their actions but being sorry that you did something because you knew it was wrong does not sound like good 'goodie' rp to me.

I think most people playing a goodie and attacking another goodie for 'rp' reasons are doing it because there are few if any real consequence for it. Sometimes it even gets mentioned in PBF's as bad rp but no evil flags etc.

CF has precedence for this in regards to other RP defined ways of thinking that are not intutive. Look for posts in regards to paladins becoming outlanders it is very similar. That is, a player cannot redefine the paladin code to suit his need and make statement that natural laws are superior to trib laws for the sake of getting into outlanders. Why can a goodie village, tribunal, outlander, fortress, or un-cabaled for that matter attack other goodies with little to no consequence, in this case I think a hard coded rule could be used to balance something that should have consequence no matter how many times you RP that you are sorry for your actions.

I will finally add admitting your sorry seems a lot like realizing your actions have some fault to them, and would be a reason for negative actions towards the character not reason to let them off the hook.

And even one more thing, as a player it doesn't bother me that much, I just kill them or die and say **** it they attacked me.