Debate: Should Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II be removed, along with all royals?
Side: Yes.

"and it is a rare thing to find one side wholly innocent, and the other wholly evil."I would take issue with this and i would cite the three most recent interventions (i.e. Iraq, Afghanistan & Libya) as examples."It is the same fallacious logic that suggests that white people should pay reparations to black people for an offence that nobody alive today has committed. "I don't beleive that analogy to be entirely valid (although i must admit it isn't entirely invalid)"If the bastion of white wealth was black slavery"The bastion of white wealth had very little to do with black slavery, that was merely a product of white wealth or dominance that further contributed to while wealth, as opposed to being the bastion of it."it stands to reason that with the abolition of slavery would inevitably come the dissipation of white domination of resources, or at least the collapse of those industrialists who utilised slavery.This is not the case, and never was."It's pretty clear that whilte dominance was sustained by much more than just black slavery, besides even if what you are asserting is true (and it isn't, at least not in the way you are proposing) the people with the power (in this case white imperialists) would inevitably engineer some means to maintain that wealth/earnings/power/influence/privilege, and would also develop some means to compensate themselves for the loss of wealth/etc. experienced due to the abolishment of slavery, at least in those cases where the aforementioned imperialists relied heavily on the wealth/etc. obtained from the trade."The same for colonialism, a practice so damaging to Britain general interests that we cannot conceive as to why it was engendered, beyond blaming the interests of a wealthy elite."Well the elite's are the ones that usually make the decision in invade (and colonise) countries"If, as you say, the wealth of the nation relied so heavily upon resources from India, we should expect to see an immediate collapse of all financial and industrial institution upon independence"The collapse of all financial and industrial institutions, come on, your attempt to use reductio ad absurdum to disprove my piont is very weak indeed, the collapse of all British financial and industrial institutions does not logically follow on from the independence of one of its colonies. While you are correct in saying that the primary benefactor's of Britains colonial rule of India were a narrow sector of elite British society is still feel that you are grossly underestimating the accumulation of wealth experienced by Britain from occupying countries like india, this isn't merely due to extraction of the countries resources but also subjecting its people to slavery, now you say that the end of this occupation would have resulted in the collapse of the British economy but that is far too simplistic a view, although the British granted the coutnry independence im sure they still had a monopoly on who they traded with. Anyway the piont is Britains empire was sustained by the colonisation of resource rich countries like India, and Britains position as a wealthy developed country today is due in no small part to the colonisation of those countries e.g.http://www.ariseindiaforum.org/struggle_for_independence.php?type=85 (although this document may well be biased it should still not be overlooked)"It was British naval dominance and innovation that ensured her success and prosperity,"I don't feel knowledgeable enough about the history of the British empire to be able to say with extreme confidence that this isn't the primary reason for Britains success and prosperity, and given that i don't really have the time to devote to researching it ill have to conceed this to you."I have argued before, that the vast majority of citizens in Britain during the height of the empire were practically slaves to the same wealthy few that propagated colonialism. "I couldnt agree more with this, how many americans have really benefited from their countries empire and world dominance, they have the privelege of living in the worlds richest ocuntry but not a whole lot more than that."To blame the descendants of slaves for one's own slavery at the hands of their masters is a ridiculous thing to do."Im not blaming anyone, im saying that i understand pakistani or Indian immigrant's feeling some sense of entitlement when they travel to Brtiain given what was done to their lands by their former colonial rulers."Input, output. That is the basis of all development."#Ain't that the truth.