User blog comment:Harold Burned-Mane/Answering some criticism against the Stormcloaks/@comment-5558140-20130913044557

this has been argued more times than the theory of evolution. neither side is really better than the other, moral ambiguity, both have good points and bad points, aldmeri are the common enemy, etc.. etc..

it does neither side any good by doing away with the other. the legion won't let them worship talos because they would risk another war by breaking the terms of the white-gold concordat. another war so soon means more citizens and soldiers will die. after the battle of red ring, the empire's forces are greatly deminished which is why titus meade agreed to negotiate a truce. no time to re-kindle alliances with the other provinces. stormcloaks can't hold their own against the entire dominion which includes the armies from summerset isles, valenwood, and elsweyr, after they had just finished a civil war of their own. it would take the combined forces of hammerfell, high rock, skyrim and the remnants of the tired empire to have any real victory. in the grand scheme, worrying about one province is a fools endeavor when the aldmeri dominion possibly seeks to enslave mankind like the ancient ayleids.