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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Originally, it served a need. Now, I imagine, it serves a want.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 18 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I mean they can definitely overlap. I want to live so I want and need my medication. That kind of thing.

I think my amusement is more that “those who want to take very bitter medicines” sounds to me more like they’re doing it on a whim. :)

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago

If it was really for traditional medicine as I inferred from a neighbouring thread, it was more of a whim