Name one negative aspect of the British Empire that wasn't ultimately outweighed by the positives.

They ended suttee in India. They built railways and infrastructure across three continents. They established the framework for modern legal and administrative systems. They pioneered the abolition of slavery. The *atrocities* were either exaggerated, standard practice for the time, or a result of local incompetence, not malicious policy. The world would be a far poorer, more divided, and more backward place without the Pax Britannica.