Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-12599067-20130928060857/@comment-24590102-20140306124006

Well, just stopping by here with some fun facts about Forsworn behaviour having just survived taking tea with Drascua. I noticed that the Forsworn patrol southwest of Hag Rock Redoubt attacked my character on sight - something neither the town guards, the Legion nor the Stormcloaks do. I also noticed that, at Broken Tower Redoubt, the Forsworn have closed one of the main routes between Markarth and Whiterun and, again, they attack on sight. Moreover, the labels "looter", "pillager" etc. seem to be on the mark and they do not behave as occupiers do in the rest of Tamriel; compare, for example, with the Empire, the Stormcloaks, the various holds of Skyrim, etc. Even the Thalmor seem to restrain themselves from waylaying everyone they lay eyes on when not on guard duty and those Thalmor are classic tyrants. The Forsworn, instead, occupy the the principle fortifiable positions across the land and seem to mind their own business when on guard but, otherwise, will attack on sight. Moreover, if the literature be believed, the Forsworn sally forth to loot and pillage - which is classic brigandry. This, further, is corroborated by the corpses of soft targets that seems to be scattered about the Reach near Forsworn strongholds.

So, I think I'm leaning towards Dovahsebrom's point of view on the Forsworn because, quite frankly, the Forsworn do not behave like oppressed people or even like people using force to seek freedom from oppression - rather they behave like fledgling oppressors and it is this oppression they impose which is inherently evil. To condense the key argument for this idea it could be proposed given: it follows that attempts to eradicate human volition are harmful and, thus, oppression is evil.
 * 1) that oppression is ultimately the attempt to eradicate volition outside of a small inner circle, and
 * 2) that human beings cannot function as human beings without volition,

It seems to me that the only difference between the behaviour of the Silverbloods and that of the Forsworn is that the Silverblood behaviour is meagrely more sophisticated. And, yes, there is a pun hidden in a root somewhere in the last sentence  :^)