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From: bandy@lll-crg.ARPA (Andrew Scott Beals)
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Subject: wants vs needs, luxury vs necessity
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 21:53:44 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 21:53:44 1985
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> From: purtell@reed.UUCP (Lady Godiva)
>     Second, it seems to me that you are reducing the value of a hug to
> something on the order of sentimental, cutesy or childish.

The point is that all-y'all are the ones that are dropping down into the
semi-mental cutesy and childish. (ie claiming that one needs N hugs per
timeperiod) And you're expressing all of this in a public forum because
you're afraid of expressing this in anything that could be construed as
a "personal" manner.

> [...] I think that hugs are very necessary and important. People need
> that kind of physical contact.

This sort of physical contact is NOT important and is definitely NOT
necessary. [``Kin yew say "hermit"? Iah knew ya could!''] It is purely
a luxury, like eating chocolate or or not having to work on the weekend
or having a *friend.

> People need to be loved and accepted like that.

Again, posh. Some people who have warped their minds such that they will
be Unhappy if they do not have this "love and acceptance" will invent
an imaginary being that "loves" and "accepts" them. Sometimes these
people will gather in groups and all fantasize about One Being.

> I've
> known all kinds of people: Christians, college students, street kids (I
> was there once myself), very poor, very rich, very accomplished, etc.
> etc. and
> [...] I've never found a group of people under any circumstances, who
> didn't need that kind of thing.

Are you sure that you don't mean "appreciate"? "Need" is a very strong word.
-- 
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