Indeed, you can't hold someone responsible for something that happened before they were born. But we should also face up to the truth that Britain did things in

Indeed, you can't hold someone responsible for something that happened before they were born. But we should also face up to the truth that Britain did things in her own interest (as does every country) and the interests of the colonised were given very little thought. Even some of the indisputebly good things that the British Empire did, such as helping to end slavery, were arguably in her own econimic self interest.