Scanlon's account in 'What We Owe to Each Other' explicitly allows that the wrongness of treating persons as mere means generates complaints individuals can advance in the contractualist procedure.

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Complaints individuals can advance(as moral standing in contractualism): Valid objections or grievances that a person could raise against others for treating them wrongly, which others would have to take seriously as legitimate.
Contractualist procedure(as the method Scanlon uses): The process of testing whether an action is morally acceptable by asking whether the principles behind it could be reasonably agreed to by everyone affected.
Scanlon: # Scanlon Tim Scanlon is an influential American philosopher known for developing a theory of ethics based on the idea that actions are right if they could be justified to others through principles everyone could reasonably accept. Rather than focusing on happiness or duty, his approach emphasizes what we can defend to each other as fair-minded people, making morality fundamentally about mutual respect and agreement. He's considered one of the most important moral philosophers of our time because his ideas have reshaped how philosophers think about fairness, responsibility, and what we owe to one another.
What We Owe to Each Other

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