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Personally speaking, I've always viewed the 40k races as all being shades of grey - no-one is good, no-one is evil. If one race has a lot of 'good' points, by our standards, I'd expect them to have a lot of 'dark' points to them too to balance it out. However as the Tau were originally meant to be 'the good guys' I think, and have always thought, they are utterly pathetic and counter-productive for the 40k setting. So what if they wipe out the odd planet who refuses to join them or the odd spot of mind-control, it's nowhere near as dark as some of the other prime suspects (Imperium being the most obvious one). Just my opinion.