Kant's categorical imperative demands that moral agents never treat persons as mere means, making systemic tolerance of evils that instrumentalize persons impermissible regardless of consequentialist benefits.

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Instrumentalize(as describing how persons can be wrongly treated): To use someone or something as a tool or instrument to achieve your own purposes, treating them as if they have no value beyond being useful to you.
Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics): Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
Moral agents(as used in ethics): People or entities capable of understanding right and wrong, making choices based on moral principles, and being held responsible for their actions.
Treat persons as mere means(as the behavior Kant's rule forbids): Using someone only as a tool to get what you want, without caring about their own goals and dignity as a human being.

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