User blog:Zippertrain85/No side is "right" in the Civil War.

It has, uh, been a long time since I have done a Civil War blog. But this time around I'm not going to be taking a side and saying why I think they are the right side to choose, quite the contrary actually, I'm going to be saying the opposite.

After thinking about it for some time I have realized there is no "right" side in the Civil War. The term "right" is by definition subjective and arbitrary, no side can make the claim of officially being the right one, when there isn't even a official way to measure what is right. What I am saying is, morality is subjective. What someone might consider evil others might consider necessary, what some consider heroism, other might consider pointless or even malicious from some points of view. The Stormcloaks can only be seen as "right" if your goal is to rid Skyrim of the Aldmeri Dominion and help finish the conflicts started in the Great War by the Empire. But not everyone wants this, or some people want it in different ways.

It seems like most Imperials support a lot of similar views to the Stormcloaks. Such as the belief Talos should be worshipped, a dislike of the Thalmor, etc. Though I personally feel there way of combating them is incorrect, that isn't factually true, and might be wrong depending on someone's own morality. Maybe the continued unification of the Empire is considered the best option for Tamriel by some peoples choices, and that the Dominion's Iron Fist rule is not enough to break it apart. From there point of view the Empire would be the "right" side, since the Stormcloaks would definitely divide the Empire even further.

Even the Aldmeri Dominion isn't immune to this. Someone could think that Elves were the original inhabitants of Tamriel, this is further proven by the fact that some believe Aldermis never existed and that the Summerset Isles is the true homeland of Elves. And that the humans are trespassers and Imperialist on their land, and the Thalmor enslaving and bringing the fight to them is just re-claiming what's, well, rightfully there's, from there point of view the Aldmeri Dominion is the "right" side in this conflict, you see how I can do this?

Basically, Draevan13 might've been right this entire time. That the Stormcloaks being right is my opinion, and that it does mostly come down to perspective and personal interpretation. But now I see what he was talking about, and it makes total sense. :)