To an extent this may be true, but it is really a rather extenuated argument based on various possible contingent sets of events.
This would be further extenuated if resource acquisition was positively related to size, or inversely related to parasite burden.
But in some cases there may be extenuating circumstances that excuse or justify people not meeting the general norms that make these nondoings into omissions.
However, we are publishing this review due to extenuating circumstances that prevented its publication at an earlier date.
The report of the case concluded that there were extenuating circumstances which mitigated the situation.
People's mobility was closely monitored and only under extenuating circumstances could an adult person stay away overnight.
And certainly on any view the connection between moral transgression and moral blameworthiness must be mediated by some account of extenuating circumstances.
Boyle coped with these various political problems by arguing that extenuating circumstances justified his text's break with rhetorical tradition.
