 Regardless of whether we judge in this case that the salesperson acts wrongly, the case helps to illustrate a distinction between agent-focused and patient-focused accounts of treating or not treating another merely as a means. According to the account we are considering, let us recall, if an agent uses another, she does not use him merely as a means if he gives his voluntary, informed consent to her use of him. This account focuses on the other, that is, on the individual treated as a means to determine whether the agent is treating him merely as a means. If he (i.e., the other) gives his informed, voluntary consent to being used in some way, then the agent does not treat him merely as a means, according to the account. To make this determination, an agent-focused account would, of course, focus more on the agent. Such an account might hold, for example, that if an agent uses another, she does not use him merely as a means if it is reasonable for her (the agent) to believe that the other gives his voluntary, informed consent to her use of him. According to the notion of reasonable belief invoked here, it is reasonable for someone to believe something roughly if the belief is justifiable given the person’s context (e.g., his upbringing, cognitive limitations, and so forth). Contrary to the patient-focused account, the agent-focused account is free from the implication that the salesperson is not treating the office manager merely as a means. It is not reasonable for the salesperson to believe that the office manager has given her voluntary consent to his use of her. It is, rather, reasonable for him to believe that he has coerced her into giving him the sales leads. A parallel patient-based vs. agent-based distinction applies, of course, to accounts of sufficient conditions for treating another merely as a means. One might, for example, hold that an agent just uses another if the other cannot share the end the agent is pursuing in using him (a patient-focused account). Or one might hold that an agent just uses another if it is reasonable for her to believe that the other cannot share the end the agent is pursuing in using him (an agent-focused account).