User blog comment:Harold Burned-Mane/The Truth about Ulfric Stormcloak/@comment-5700881-20131108114507/@comment-173.189.226.24-20131112053614

... You're not understanding what I'm getting at. The REASON they started dragging people off was because of Ulfric making a fuss about it, not just because the Thalmor all of a sudden wanted to. As in if Ulfric would have just shut up this stuff wouldn't have happened.

But what does killing the High King do that's beneficial? All I see is that it's unnecessary when he could have at least tried diplomacy, and thus prevent this massive drain on resources and manpower. Ulfric's actions to me only show he is doing this for self-interests.

I am criticizing it because the gods(divines) don't do much unless under extreme circumstance. I will argue that what shrines do to you is a gameplay feature and not a regular thing that happens to most people. If that were the case then I would expect diseases to not be an issue as all one needs to do is go to the town's local shrine of whichever god you prefer and BAM! No more of that rockjoint. But considering how disease is a moderate issue, that merchant in Riften takes pride in not having infected meat after all, makes me think that what the player gets is an exception, or they just happen to be most devoted person to all eight(nine) divines no matter what they do. At least in Oblivion they made sense by having blessings only affect you if you were noble. But that's no longer the case in Skyrim.

I'm aware the first inhabitants weren't Reachmen, it was the Nords, BUT, the Reachmen are the direct descendants of those who first colonized the place so the Reach belongs to them the same way a father's inheritance goes to his son and not his cousin who happens to be more closely related to him genetically, so from where I stand the Reachmen have every right to own the place. I understand, Muiri might be one of those people, but I see it as the US government's dealings with Native Americans, they could've, and maybe should've moved somewhere else, but they were living there in the first place, the US should have asked permission to use their land instead of forcing them to march on somewhere else and live there. I'm aware that's the only place they can live, but after over 700 years of living together you would think the two races would have intermingled at least class-wise by then, the coincidence that the poor who live in the city just happens to be almost all Reachmen, and the condition they live in, shows that something's not right here.

Finally, you admit that the treatment isn't ethical. At least there's one thing we agree on.