He can recognise a despot, and the occasions when despotism has to be checked, by force if necessary.
Then again, it's not entirely unreasonable to assume that the contents of the programme have now permanently imprinted on his young brain, dooming him to a thankless life as a bloodthirsty despot with a number of profound entitlement problems.
Please do not let yourselves be used by a despot.
Azerbaijan is run by a family dynasty, Turkmenistan by a despot who took over from another despot.
"Please do not let yourselves be used by a despot," says the appeal to the hockey players, signed by Tom Stoppard, Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, James Bierman and Janet Suzman, among others.
It is not obvious whether the moral good is served by seeking peace above all else, or risking bloodshed to remove a despot.
The revolutions of 1919 and 1952 both exchanged one despot for another.
He is no tinpot despot, singled out for arbitrary American punishment.
Observers of the reclusive despot assume that he views the construction of a new city as a way to make his mark on Burmese history.
Many argue that power has turned Mr Aristide, once a priest of Franciscan poverty, into just another Haitian despot.
As his life moves peacefully to its close, Indonesians seems baffled about how to think about the old despot.
