 Aristotle also discusses “mixed actions”, ones that are done knowingly but unwillingly. He gives the examples of a captain tossing their cargo overboard to save their ship during a storm, and a person doing something dishonorable at the order of a tyrant in order to save the lives of their family. These are not the sorts of actions they would normally perform, but they feel forced to do so under the circumstances. Such actions, says Aristotle, are voluntary, and the agent is responsible for them—after all, the origin of the action was inside the agent, and they knew the particular circumstances of their actions. However, when assessing actions, we need to take those circumstances in account, so that actions that normally would be wrong, like tossing cargo overboard, are sometimes actually praiseworthy and reflect well on the agent.