 Against the background of seemingly implausible implications of individual accounts of conditions for treating others merely as means, one option is to combine these accounts. For example, we might hold roughly that a person is just using another if she is using him, the other has now actually given his dissent to it, and he never had the opportunity to prevent the use from beginning by withholding his agreement to it. Or we might assert roughly that a person treats another merely as a means if she uses him, and the other can neither consent to this use nor share her end in using him.