"Unless you count the fact that White, Christian Britain was the First Nation in thousands of years of human existence since Creation to not only question human slavery but to take meaningful action against it, abolishing the Slave Trade throughout the entire Empire in 1807 and banning all slavery, period in 1833 throughout its Empire. It then went through Africa in its colonising expeditions liberating more humane tribes from the savagery of cannibals and slave-driving tribes who oppressed them, hunting down and putting to justice slave traders across the continent and doing everything in its power to advance natural rights in Africa. Millions upon millions of human beings were liberated from slavery because of White Christian Great Britain, and would still be languishing in it had the anti-colonialists won their wars against Britain. In addition to this Britain advanced free trade and free institutions, education, roads, Christianity, and many incalculable assets in its colonies. It abolished barbaric and savage practices in the Indian Subcontinent such as widow-burning, wherein widows would be quite literally burned alive before an audience of gleeful spectators to die in the most barbarous and humiliating way; and also kept the fragile peace between sparring religious in the Indian Subcontinent from murdering each other. When it disastrously granted "India" independence in 1946, millions of these heated zealots would murder each other – and even now we see the results of religious persecutions since Britain's humane rule ended. You better thank your lucky stars (or better yet come around and thank God) for the Empire, because it quite literally saved human civilisation itself from the evils of Nazism in World War II, in addition to saving Europe from Napoleon's Evil Regime. You would be, if alive at all, a subject of the Third Reich if not for the British Empire. While it did have it faults (It was at fault in our war of independence), which I do not deny, the British Empire was incontestably a good thing on balance. It brought humanity and civilisation to uneducated peoples across the world. It advanced freedom and dignity across the globe and banished the most horrible Tyrannies from the face of the earth."
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