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And I hate their blue-rich eye searing headlights to.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The key words here are "matters" and "need".

I bought the car I have today because driving my small 4 door hatchback was no longer a feaseable endeavour when wanting to move the entire family all at once. It was an objective need, not something it mattered.

You can reply I didn't need to get a family or the dogs. You're right. But that actually mattered to me, regardless if it was an objective need.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

As I said, I'm in the same spot.

My point is that 99.9% of large car owners have what to them seems like an objective need. Humans are super good at justifying our actions, especially to ourselves