Let me ask you a rhetorical question: You are in a room with a screaming baby and a basket of clothes that need folding. What do you do first? Which is the greatest and most immediate need?
Here's my answer: I would attend to the baby first. No matter what reason my baby might be crying, I would drop whatever I was doing and pick him up. I know there might be a different take if the baby is known to have colic or to spend much of its day screaming for undeterminable reasons. But from my own experience, with my own baby, I would pick him up. I would always tend to my baby's needs over housework.
But here's a question for you: does the baby represent the physical touch LL and the laundry represent, say, the quality touch LL or any one of the other four LLs? If so, then I don't see how they can be compared. A baby is human so it has needs, one of which is to be loved. A load of laundry has no needs. The laundry does not "need" to be folded in order to feel loved. I might say I "need" to fold the laundry, but that won't make me feel loved either. I don't see any negative consequences from ignoring the laundry to attend to the baby, other than wrinkled clothes.
However, when we talk about the LLs, we are talking about the needs of two human beings, not the needs of a baby versus a pile of inanimate objects.
