 Several concepts in ethics overlap with that of treating persons merely as means. For example, to say that a person is exploiting or manipulating another is often to imply that the person is using the other in a morally problematic  way.[1]  Prototypical cases of coercion such as muggings are also cases of a person, the mugger, treating another, the victim, merely as a means. Other concepts that intersect with that of treating someone merely as a means include those of commodifying and of objectifying a person (Davis 1984: 392). Commodifying someone can involve using her as one would use a mere thing, instead of treating her, as one ought, as a being of higher status, for example.