 For example, regarding a case in which a person could either save himself from some injury or do something that would save some stranger’s life in a distant land, the person presumably has sufficient reasons to do either one. In a similar vein, a person can have sufficient reason to consent to being treated as a means by virtue of some impartial reason, such as the fact that his being so treated will save many lives, even if he also has sufficient reason to dissent from being treated as a means by virtue of some partial reason, such as the fact that his being so treated will result in suffering for him. In sum, this account holds that if an agent uses another, he does not use the other merely as a means if the other has sufficient reasons, as just characterized, for agreeing to be used.