Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5691575-20130809205256/@comment-12654584-20130813064737

"As with any group, there are a few winners and a whole lot of losers."-George Carlin.

In order to determine "evil", you kind of have to pick an ethical standard, and there are as many of those as there are flavors of ice cream at Baskin Robins. I am, in truth, a nihilist, but I think it's useful for normative ethics' purposes to talk about morals as if they exist, and for this purpose, I like Kantian ethics.

On to the question. The Thalmor's will falls FAR short of good, so I'd have to say that I consider all of them to be very morally repugnant. Most other Altmer are not truly evil, even though I consider arrogance to be among the worst of character flaws.