User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right part 2/@comment-178.119.43.248-20130829004549

I'm sorry, but everything you've based that last post on is verifyiably false. "Let's say a road might go through a giant's territory, they might start attacking the people who go on that road. So no, they're not always peaceful."

1. We could say that. But we would be lying as no roads actually go through any of the camps.

2. Even if they did, the giant would not be violent. I have walked through the camps and they haven't shown the smallest sign of hostility. You can take their cheese and they'll let you - that's how hospitable giants are. How 'dangerous' they are to travelers: they'll feed a total stranger wandering through their home. How many Nords can you say that about?

"The Nord towns in Skyrim like Riverwood, Karthwasten, and Dragon Bridge DO consist of all races. Whlie things like the Khajiit Caravan do not. And they have less people. This is why Ulfric might send his soldiers to the Nord towns more, because since he's a war he only has a limited amount of soldiers he can use for law enforcement. "

Yes, but the towns are also larger than the caravans. If given the choice of saving an -equal number- of non-Nords or Nords, he would do nothing. If given the choice of saving any number of only non-Nords, he would do nothing.

"The Dunmer are not oppressed by the Stormcloaks and neither are the Argonians."

Yes, they are. They are forced to live in either slums or outside of the city walls, in a ghetto. So say the Dunmer, so says Freewinter, so says the carriage driver - to a man who makes a living out of seeing all of the Holds, the segregation of Gray Elves is the defining characteristic of the city.

"The Dunmer have their own part of the city, Ulfric doesn't need to help them because they don't pay taxes, and govern themselves."

Not, actually, true. Viola Giordano suggests they in fact pay -more- taxes. If there is paperwork that suggests otherwise, it means Ulfric taxes them in violation of said paperwork.

"Ulfric has more then enough city guards to round those two up. The thing is, he chooses not to because he's not racist. Those two probably pledged featility and therefor can live in the regular city and get help from the government."

Ulfric doesn't have the guard to capture a -single- murderer, as evidenced in Blood on the Water. 2 > 1, not to mention he'd have to control civil unrest if he went so overt with his racism.

"They lead fights, so combat prowess does matter. Which Ulfric clearly had better then Torygg." Name one fight any High King or Jarl lead, discounting the ones they were forced into.

"Why would Skyrim want this weak man as opposed to Ulfric. Who is strong and understands politics and how to run a country?" Because the Jarls deemed him better at leading the country, plain and simple. The Jarls, who knew Ulfric and Torygg personally and were intimately familiar with their political prowess, believed Torygg to know better how to run a country.

So you don't have "Ulfric who is strong and understands politics". You have 'Ulfric who is strong and Torygg who understands politics and how to lead a country." - and Ulfric believed that out of these two options, he'd make the best, because in his mind strength is more important than the ability to lead a country.