"Scented Nectar" > wrote in message
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>
>> >>>There you were, almost respectable, posting
>> >>>an interesting, polite explanation. Then you
>> >>>went and blew it all with a gratuitous insult.
>> >>
>> >>Ha ha! Gotcha! I meant everything I said about no
>> >>distinction between "need" vs. "want", the instrumental
>> >>sense of "need", and so on, and it's ALL right. But I
>> >>knew you'd read all the way to the end, and get a nice
>> >>big surprise. Bon apetit, twit.
>> >
>> >
>> > You blow your own post to smithereens.
>>
>> Nope. What I wrote still stands. There is no such
>> thing as "needs" in some absolute sense; there are only
>> wants.
>
> You had an opportunity to be serious and
> instead you chose to sabotage your own
> post. You must be a hateful individual.

You had an opportunity to learn something extremely valuable from the part
of the post that preceded the insult, did you?

Or did you choose to react and focus on the meaningless last line of the
post and learn nothing?