The argument is that you cannot have just the tail-end of an event. You have to have the necessary steps that lead up to it. You can't have baby chicks without fertilized eggs being brooded over by a mother hen. On the other hand, you can have eggs that get brooded over yet do not hatch. Most people are not avid fanciers of roosters.
Some people are avid fanciers of game cocks.
But you can't have a game cock that is not a chicken. You can't fall in the well if you never approach it, but lots of people approach wells without ever falling in. You cannot die lest you have first lived your life to its end. So it stands to reason that if you have died you have lived all of your life. Being given a mandate does not mean that you will necessarily accept that task.