Kant's formula of humanity prohibits treating any person solely as a means, and inflicting suffering valued as good in itself reduces the offender to a mere vehicle for moral accounting.

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Formula of Humanity(as a specific ethical principle from Kant): A key principle from Kant's ethics stating that you should always treat people as ends in themselves (as having inherent worth), never merely as means to your own goals.
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.
Mere vehicle(as what happens to someone who commits unjust suffering): Being reduced to just a tool or container for something else, with no independent value or dignity of your own.
Moral accounting(as a system the statement critiques): The idea of keeping track of right and wrong actions like a financial ledger, where suffering could theoretically be counted as a balance or payment.

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