 Thus, the fact that consequentialist impartiality makes extraordinary and, to many, unreasonable demands on the individual (section 3.2) might be taken to indicate that consequentialism fails to take individuals seriously as agents. At the same time, the fact that consequentialist impartiality permits the individual to be used as a mere means when doing so promotes the greater good (section 3.3)might indicate that consequentialism fails to take individuals seriously as patients. The conception of impartiality that tends to be favored by deontologists avoids such implications by refusing to view impartial action simply as a matter of maximizing interests (or some other version of the impersonally determined good.) Deontologists take the right rather than the good to be fundamental to ethics, and tend to see moral action in terms of acting in accordance with principles that are rationally acceptable to all.