Talk:Hedgehog's dilemma

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Contents 1 Simpson's Quote? 2 Possible misinterpretation 3 Relativity to personality 4 A bit of wording 5 Stachelschwein 6 Note

[edit] Simpson's Quote?

Why is there a simpson's quote under the image of the hedgehog? I don't think this is relevant and actually consider this a possible form of vandalism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.71.144.231 (talk) 13:24, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Possible misinterpretation

The following phrase does not seem to be an good example of what the hedgehog's dilemma is: "If two people come to care about and trust each other, something bad that happens to one of them will hurt the other as well, and dishonesty between the two could cause even greater problems." Since the "condition" is usually applied to an individual and not a couple, a better example regarding couple relationships might be: "If an individual becomes very close to another but gets hurt in the process, he or she might not want to get too close to someone again, fearing pain."

[edit] Relativity to personality

I believe that people of certain personality types suffer this dilemma more than others. For example, people with a "type B" Personality would probably suffer this more. Other factors probably influnce quite a bit too. Lord Sephiroth 02:31, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A bit of wording

In order to prevent an edit war (and because I accidentally pressed "enter" before I was done typing my edit summary), I bring this up on the talk page.

"The dilemma is exemplified with hedgehogs because they have spines on their backs."

In my opinion, this sentence is unnecessarily wordy, not to mention that it uses the word "exemplify" incorrectly. Thus I revert. Commander Nemet 06:04, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stachelschwein

The article says Schopenhauer used the word "Stachelschwein". However, Stachelschwein indeed means porcupine, and not hedgehog. So which is it? Doesn't matter much for the metaphor of course, but still I'd like to know... Renke 00:17, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Note

This shit is fucking depressing.