User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right./@comment-3217145-20130508040546/@comment-3217145-20130508050646

I don't respect that he's a power-hungry warmonger, I respect the way he goes about it. Just like I respect a virus or a shark. He's good at his job, but I'm still gonna kill him.

But if the Empire is the sick dog it seems to be, it needs to start losing control and being challenged in a real way so it can either shape up or die off. Leave a rose bush in "peace" and becomes a big tangled mess and loses its flowers. If you want something to thrive, it has to barely survive. Even if the Empire fights off the Dominion then goes back to business as usual, what good is it? And if it gets destroyed and replaced by the Dominion, what difference does it make? Another Ulfric would just start the same war, but this time against the Dominion directly instead of some Imperial puppet ruler. I still think Ulfric was a necessary piece of the puzzle, even if I don't want him to win.