Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24037808-20140924094901/@comment-6078851-20140928153241

that thread is definitely recommended reading, only recommended though :P

40k is mostly told through the human perspective since it's written by humans for humans, and as such when people get into 40k for the most part it's from the imperium's point of view, which leads people to erroniously think that they're the 'good guys'.

the human race has survived though, so for those who wholeheartedly support the imperium the fact of their survival can be used to say that what they've done is 'good'. but the policies of the imperium's rulers/administrators are self serving power-plays and as such many, many worlds of the imperium suffer needlessly, or are even ignored beyond recieving their tithe. plus what the imperium does do anyone opposed to their attempt at complete galactic dominance could never be construed as good from the point of view of any other race. there's so much more to say on this subject but it's all been covered in the 'good and evil in 40k' thread, but essentially it comes down to fact that the ideas of good and evil, or moral and immoral, are totally subjective to every race, and even subjective to individuals of the same species, and so no race in 40k is all-encompassingly 'good' but rather varying degree's of bad.

i know that this idea is unpalatable to many but it's sorta the cornerstone of the 40k franchise - very grim and very, very dark.