Originally Posted by
Kathranis
I think Jaina's kind of just a huge hypocrit. She displayed some stunningly hypocritical behavior in Tides of War.
Like, for example, ranting about Garrosh using nature as a weapon and weilding powerful artifacts to wage war, while she was preparing to use the Focusing Iris to destroy Orgrimmar with a tidal wave made out of hundreds of enslaved water elementals.
As for Kael, you can argue that it was the Kirin Tor's behavior which drove him to the Legion in the first place. Rather than offering him safe haven behind their walls, they allowed Garithos to imprison him and his people in the Violet Hold and tried to execute them using, as I recall, a swarm of giant scorpions. Nevermind that Kael'thas was a royal and one of the Six.
In general, I think the Alliance actually displays a lot of hypocrisy, which I blame more on the writing than anything.
Genn Greymane and the worgen are another example. Genn was a colossal dick to the Alliance in the past, and the worgen are essentially savage monsters. Some humans in Hillsbrad went so far as to willingly drink worgen blood, becoming monsters in order to gain the power to fight the Forsaken.
And yet the worgen are welcomed with open arms by the night elves and Alliance, despite the worgen previously being known as such dangerous beings that they had to be trapped in the Emerald Dream for thousands of years, or being vicious monsters living in Silverpine, Duskwood, and Ashenvale. The ill will between Varian and Genn was also quickly set aside and they became friends fighting side-by-side in battle. Blizzard treats them as heroes among heroes -- there's nothing dark or savage left in them by the time the novels and questlines are over.
Meanwhile, the humans treated the Forsaken as monsters and the orcs are condemned for once drinking the blood of Mannoroth, and so forth. And, again, I don't really blame this on the Alliance so much as Blizzard's writers, which allowed for all these double-standards in the first place.
In a more logical world, the worgen storyline would have been written so that they would ally with the Forsaken rather than going to war. Two races of gothic monsters rejected by humanity, banding together for survival, makes a lot more sense than "and so the Forsaken attack them because they want a port (IE, because Blizz needed justification for the worgen joining the Alliance)".