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Re:“Ask 'why' five times about every matter” by jdimov10 on Monday May 09, 2016 @09:48AM (#11659783)
The magic insight is always this: "Because I want to feel good." When someone doesn't want to put this in words, they get annoyed and stop talking to you.
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Re:“Ask 'why' five times about every matter” by hashkb on Monday May 09, 2016 @10:30AM (#11660089)
You're so right... but you can substitute "powerful", " secure", etc for "good"; and also sometimes "because of secret reasons".
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Re:“Ask 'why' five times about every matter” by stcredzero on Monday May 09, 2016 @02:53PM (#11662171)
Sometimes it's, "Because I don't want a repeat of this crappy thing that happened to me."

Often software is used as a means for one group inside a company to control another group.

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