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There's a scene where some employee shows her prototypes to her manager. And
this manager looks at her after browsing those and says:

> [意見が欲しい]{いけんがほしい}?

Now I thought [欲しい]{ほしい} is strictly used for describing one's own desires and
not those of others. How is this possible here?
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Why is [欲しい]{ほしい} used here to ask about someone's desire?
You are right that you shouldn't use ほしい to express someone else's desires,
i.e. お姉ちゃんは子猫がほしい would be incorrect because you can't claim to know someone's
personal feelings. But it's fine to use it to ask a person about their desires
as in your example sentence.
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