Actually, you got me there.
I think that need is a statement that is conditional upon something else, so if we do not know what is the something else, then the statement of "need" might come off as vague or an exaggeration..
Without stating the condition, we could not really know what the speaker means by "need," except to speculate about what was meant by the condition. For example, since I am not a bot, I need air in order to live.
Yeah, I do agree. And even if you need air to live it doesn't have the same level of intensity/urgency of need if you have just taken a full breath or if you have been deprived for more than a minute already. See what I mean?
To be honest I expected a more detailed answer from you. Considering how you are able to philosophy about pure technical matters I thought you would excel philosophying about a more philosophy thing.
It's all good, I don't even know why I launched the question... Oh yes, I was going to say that need is a bitch. And even minor degrees of need not only suck but... and this is the point I really wanted to make: CAN SEVERELY HAMPER YOUR HODLING ABILITIES.
So... seeing both "need" and "15 years" in the same sentence... is some kind of an oxymoron to me.
P.S.: On the other hand, "need" can sometimes even make for a stronger hodler. As in: "I don't have as much as a I "need", so I will keep hodling."
So "need" is not only a bitch... but a double faced bitch!