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Absolutely. So they can need it but not want it.

And as barefoot says above, you can want a product without needing it.

Need/Want may be correlated, but they certainly don't imply each other, in either direction.




There is an infinite amount of things that we need/want if we follow that definition which again simply removes the meaning of the distinction.

There is no insight to be gained from the distinction, it's semantic masturbation nothing else.




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