The classic problem - who decides what behavior is benevolent? "$INSERT_POSITIVE_ADJECTIVE despotism" is still despotism. So it comes down to each person's be

The classic problem - who decides what behavior is benevolent? "$INSERT_POSITIVE_ADJECTIVE despotism" is still despotism. So it comes down to each person's belief set - do they believe that despotism is unfortunate when misapplied but is a force for good in the right hands? Or do they instead believe that all forms of control inevitably will get seized by corrupt forces? Or more radically, that the entire concept of control is inherently contradictory when seen in the broader context of us having brains with limited computational power, limited knowledge, forever bounded by time in a locally deterministic universe, and thus any attempt to seize control just furthers the propagation of ignorance that the "benevolent despotists" are ironically trying to eradicate? The answer is left as an exercise to the reader.