User blog comment:The Usual Thinker/Which side did you choose and why?/@comment-4864415-20120224015030/@comment-4692902-20120224062424

Personally, I disagree that neither faction has the moral high ground, I hope you understand why the Empire signed the White-Gold Concordant (They were desperate for an end to the war and both sides might have just been out of steam, granted, it wasn't the best decision, but I would strongly advise that you to try and imagine fighting a war like and tell me that you want to keep fighting), I have since been reading some discussions on other sites and I think they brought up some pretty good points on the Dominion:

1. That they have been playing to the tunes of each country to turn them against Empire, Khajit? Use moon magic (grip by their religion), Redguards? Make the Empire give a significant portion of Hammerfell, cause a separation, then pull out, making it look like the Redguards can fight back. (they will never trust the Empire again), Nords? Outlaw Talos, they're favourite Divine (Again, manipulate them using they're religion)

2. Fighting upfront battles isn't the only way the Dominion fights wars after all they killed one-hundred blades members, aren't they usually good at espionage?

Also, I saw you said you believe the Stormcloaks are the best faction in the short term, I hope you read what I posted in the second link, about how the Dominion simply need to deactivate a few more "towers" and they will become Divines again and Mundus will dissolve, I think long term beats short term by MILES, unless you think they are also best for long term, I extremely doubt it. And while the Stormcloaks are racists I don't believe that that should be the only deciding factor, i.e. They are also short-sighted as in not caring about the consequences of their actions, in traditional Nord fashion, like how Ulfric killed Torygg when he could have tried diplomacy and not start the whole war to begin with!

As for the paperwork and execution. While I agree that that was unnecessary, I remember that it was that bitch of a Captain that wanted you dead. But I would agree with some people that Bethesda purposefully tried very hard to make the Stormcloals very appealing very early on while making you regret your decision later on (sacking of Whiterun or their racism anybody?), doing the opposite for the Imperials, making them very unappealing very early on while making more likable later on, from what those people said, its also to test visceral reactions against intellectual ones. Lets not forget the Dominion manipulated Ulfric twice, and wasn't there that jarl of Morthal that apparently gets visions from all nine Divines, and that's her reason why she sided with the Empire, so Talos must not like the Stormcloaks.