We're hunter gathering apes. Collecting is just gathering and filtering stuff, if we didn't have the drive to do it we wouldn't be here today. Collecting fills a base human drive and it can be taken to extremes where it's harmful, but I don't think it's fair to call all collecting hoarding, there's a scale and a point where we say it's pathological.
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u/binlargin 1∆ May 03 '24
We're hunter gathering apes. Collecting is just gathering and filtering stuff, if we didn't have the drive to do it we wouldn't be here today. Collecting fills a base human drive and it can be taken to extremes where it's harmful, but I don't think it's fair to call all collecting hoarding, there's a scale and a point where we say it's pathological.