Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24099618-20140114190300/@comment-3076045-20140504074842

Coppermantis wrote: ScholarOfTheScrolls wrote: 75.70.197.80 wrote: Dalledayul wrote: I've always been confused by why pretty much anyone would like or support the Thalmor, or at least try to justify their actions. So to anyone who thinks this way: why do you like the Thalmor? If I may be pardoned for referencing Final fantasy...I've always been confused by why pretty much anyone would like or support Sepheroth, or at least try to justify his actions. There's always some nutters who like the villains, whether they be gold-skinned KKK rejects (Thalmor) or homicidally insane assholes with mommy issues (Sepheroth). It is true that I support another "Villain" faction (Stormcloaks), but I have my own reasons. Stormcloaks aren't villains, neither are the Imperials there is no black and white in the Civil War, the only true bad guys are the Thalmor. Even they aren't necessarily villains. By some relatively arbitrary sense of morality, they might be, but, as Nietzche might say, they're only trying to manifest their superiority by breaking free from these "morals" which the meek impose upon the strong in order to suppress them. Thus, what we see as villainy is really the oppressed siezing control of themselves from their oppressors.

Not that I entirely agree, but still. Whilst reading that, I had the mental picture of the peasants scene from Holy Grail. "Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!