#sharp spines

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The ‘hedgehog’s dilemma’ refers to the animal’s inability to cuddle for warmth because of its sharp spines, and is a metaphor for the difficulty of human intimacy. It suggests that even those with good intentions can’t be intimate without harming each other, and is used to explain introversion and isolationism. (source)

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