User blog comment:Harold Burned-Mane/Why the Thalmor suck/@comment-5700881-20131103234031/@comment-5700881-20131108121652

Yeah, but WHICH Altmer that aren't in league with the Dominion, besides the shopkeepers, look at themselves as superior to other races or flat out say it? Like I said Nirya is weird, it's just fact plenty of women are crazy, and so what if she pays you? Maybe she was just tired of her, and which one are you talking about, does Nirya pay you, or Faralda? you said the former earlier, and the latter just now, I haven't encountered something like that so I wouldn't know. Please keep in mind that Elves(At least in this universe) are sentient beings with freewill the same as man, Argonian, or Khajiit, with all the positives and negatives that come with it, of the Elves I encountered, I would say that stereotype is false or least what you seem to imply is an inborn trait is weaker than said freewill and self determination. Yes, each species has innate leanings towards one thing or another, but that DOESN'T define who they are, it's their choice whether or not it helps define them. It's like Kaidan in Mass Effect said about aliens: "They have jerks and saints, just like us".

Uhh, that person never explicitly talks like she's better for some arbitrary reason than you, she's just after magical knowledge and the player interrupted her, in her position I would probably have the same attitude.

Eh, I like their swords, that's about it, and hunting dragons, I don't want to defend them seeing as how most are immediately hostile, and aren't reasonable, but, doesn't that sound like genocide to you? Yes I am referring to the Greybeard's grandmaster thing, he's changed, he may have done some bad things but he's changed now, he's at the moment not a threat, in fact he's helpful, polite, etc. it's time for them to move on, they should be more mature than this, allow exceptions, not dwelling on the past and killing first and aak questions maybe. I said that doesn't excuse what the Thalmor did to them, but Delphine does say they(assumingly the Blades) hurt them(presumably the Thalmor) in the past, and that they have long memories. I was merely trying to ask, if they won't forgive Paarthurnax for what he may have done in the past, and for the crime of being a dragon. Then why should the Thalmor let go what ever the Blades did to them? In summary, I look at it as an example of the Golden Rule(Not that I'm Christian, but that's beside the point)

I agree the Thalmor, and by extension the Dominion, should be abolished, but it's just that you were quick to associate entire species with the actions with a group, or suggest the species is the root of the problem.