[nhchris]

"Pride as well as shame" is not "ends as well as means", it is "it caused good as well as bad".

[rxhernandez]

Imagine someone saying that Nazis caused good as well as bad and not seeing how that necessarily translates to ends justifying means

[nhchris]

Imagine someone saying the objective truth, regardless of what tortured implications someone wrings from it.

For example, the Wikipedia article on a different colonial empire, the Umayyad caliphate, is positively aglow with all the good it did (in addition to enslaving some of its subjects): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Andalus