In one sense, a con-man who sells you a fake medicine to treat a serious affliction is “giving you what you want”
No, I don’t think this is a meaningful sense of “what you want”. In the same way giving your wallet to an armed robber is “what you want”, too.
I agree; I wouldn’t use the word that way — but that notion of “want” would explain the way miekw is using it above.
No, I don’t think this is a meaningful sense of “what you want”. In the same way giving your wallet to an armed robber is “what you want”, too.
I agree; I wouldn’t use the word that way — but that notion of “want” would explain the way miekw is using it above.