Interesting observation.  I agree that the primitive society described by Hobbes as " "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" still exists in some places and that it does not "make those so afflicted any less worthy as human beings".  

However those who seek to inflict it on others, glorify such a state and pine for its return are of questionable humanity.

I am not saying that "the conquering culture has an inherent right to dominate all others."  That is the position of the Monarchists who were the original imperialists on these islands. 

As for "a kinder way of approaching the issue", as stated previously "you cannot reason with zealots. They deify a piles of rocks and worship a mythical past which was in reality a Hobbesian fantasm of violence, disease and poverty."