User blog comment:AveryWood/Reasons Why Going With the Empire is Better/@comment-1967485-20120818180540/@comment-58.69.55.162-20120819211611

Yeah the Empire didn't want to sign the Concordat but they did anyway and the only provinces that were severely weakened was Cyrodiil and Hammerfell and they had south of their land already taken by the Thalmor and had no breaks after the Great war after they left the Empire and manage the hold the Thalmor back for thirty years while the Empire just quit and their thirty years to late to bide anymore time and look what has happened when they did.

"They're part of the Empire, so they do what the Empire tells them to do" so what their opinions don't matter regardless on how completely asinine their decision was and in decisions like the Concordat don't you need to think before signing something like this or ask if the leaders would be willing to comply with the said terms of the concordat and analyze the obvious consequences of the terms written in the Concordat you know how good leaders are supposed to do find a diplomatic solution for everything I mean they just drove out the Thalmor they had enough of time to think about something and outlawing Talos worship and seceding part of Hammerfell really justified the means I mean it only made an entire province leave and cost a civil war in another and had the elite body guards of the Emperor disbanded and allow the Thalmor to wander around the Empire doing Divines knows what. "the end really did justified the means didn't it".