Believe it or not, saying there is a middle ground between eating nothing but peanut butter sandwiches and ordering DoorDash- which is the post I responded to- does not make me conflate needs with wants.
Although I admit that you don't need to eat anything but beans and vegetables. That doesn't mean I think anyone deserves to live on nothing but beans and vegetables. That's a miserable way to live. Do you think people deserve to live that way?
I still think you will conflate needs with wants even if in this specific discussion you chose to concede and admit people don't need to eat more than vegetables and beans.
And, of course, it's not in any way possible that I was ever poor enough to have to live on nothing but that for weeks at a time myself.
Of course, I did use spices. And I didn't need spices, so I'm conflating want and need. Unless I have beans and vegetables that are already spoiled which I dug out of the dumpster in cloudy water with no spices, I don't know the difference between need and want.
Jesus fucking Christ. Have you ever even had to live like that for an extended period of time? It's absolutely awful. It's torture.
But I don't know the difference between needs and wants because I didn't get down to the absolute basest way a human being can survive.