'Need' may not be the correct term, SRS; perhaps the 'norm' is better.

I am speaking of 'pack' animals- whether it's the wolf or its descendant, the dog. I'm spaaking of the normal child's admiration and emulation of the adults in its life. The calf's pursuit of and reliance on its mother- or on any other adult bovine that will protect it. The churchgoer's reliance on the dogma of its order. The pope's yearning for God. My own innate belief that I don't koow everything.

I would say even Universalists and Buddhists are in pursuit of Truth, which one might say is a 'greater' good.

On the other hand, I'm not locked into this concept. I was musing.