Scented Nectar wrote:
>>>I should correct my wording:
>>>Most people see continuing to stay alive as a need.
>>
>>Your correction is still wrong. It's a want, not a need.
>>
>>
>>>You can call it a want if you like.
>>
>>It IS a want. There is no such thing as "need" the way you mean the
>>word.
>
>
> It's just a word, calm down. You know
> full well that people use the word need
> to describe what you call instrumental
> needs.

No, they use it as some kind of absolute to distinguish
from wants. They think "needs" take some kind of
precedence over wants, but as we have seen, that's not
so - people trade so-called "needs" for so-called "mere
wants". That word "mere" is always understood, whether
it's stated or not.