Matthew Collins, from Hope not Hate, says Mr Dowson "seems to see himself as some kind of benevolent individual now who wants to offer the wealth of his experience and knowledge to other people".
The paradigmatic individual — the benevolent person (ren ren) — is one who devotes himself to "promoting the benefit of and eliminating harm to the world".
And most open-source projects are governed by a "benevolent dictator", an individual with exceptional programming, organisational and communications skills such as Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux.The power of these leaders, however, is not absolute.
"At one time the gifts of individuals and benevolent organizations were intended largely to relieve the suffering of 'the weak, the poor and the unfortunate,' " the report noted.
Smith saw vigorous competition as the benevolent "invisible hand" that ensured individuals' efforts to pursue their own interests could benefit society more than if they were actually trying to achieve that end.
States, cities, foreign countries, benevolent societies, other organizations, and individuals have contributed 194 memorial stones, all inserted into the east and west interior walls above stair landings or levels for easy viewing, except one on the south interior wall between stairs that is difficult to view.
4. Benevolent dictators are benevolent.
Benevolent Beginnings Middlemen have sprung up on the outskirts of the mutual fund industry for the most benevolent of reasons: they allow individual investors to choose more broadly among the thousands of funds in the marketplace, instead of being limited to funds from a single family.
The main values in the first set are individual autonomy and benevolent impartiality (most prominently towards members of groups culturally different from one's own).
Unlike an individual producer, a benevolent social planner takes into account that each firm's increase in its capital stock adds to the aggregate capital of the modern sector via knowledge spillovers.
In religions of nonliterate peoples, spiritual beings may be viewed as either malevolent or benevolent according to the circumstances facing the individual or community.
