 This notion of conditions under which a person cannot share an agent’s end might be included in the following account: An agent treats another merely as a means if the other cannot share the proximate end or ends the agent is pursuing in treating him as a means. An agent’s proximate end is something she aims to bring about directly from her use of the person. Her proximate end might also be her ultimate end, say, if she uses another to avoid pain. But her proximate end might be far removed from her ultimate end. Someone might, for example, use another to develop her skill as a violinist to earn a good living in an orchestra so she can put her little sisters through college, and so forth. The account invokes proximate ends because they are far more intimately connected to the use that brings them about than ultimate ends need be.