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If they were consistently responsible and accountable

And thus we invoke the principle of explosion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion

https://xkcd.com/704/

"Falsehood" in formal logic means "a contradiction", not "a condition impossible to fulfill." It may be impossible to get a good dictator (except Cincinnatus, Sulla, and maybe Octavian Augustus), but "good dictator" isn't contradictory (as opposed to "neutron star not containing any neutrons" or the like).

And I mentioned a few examples of good dictators in that parenthetical, which suggest some of the requirements necessary to get a good one.

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