In order for two concepts or entities to be fundamentally opposite, they must be fundamentally the same. I mean that theism is the opposite of atheism because they are different sides of the same concept: ones relation to god or gods. Commensurability is necessary for this relationship. Paper, while very different from a puma, is not its opposite.
Such it is in life. In setting oneself opposed to something, one is inextricably linking oneself to that thing, and this relationship can manifest itself in many ways. For instance, if you claim to hate someone or something, you may be prone to spending most of your time railing against that person or thing, which is really quite the pathetic existence. Your thoughts become devoted to what you despise, and you turn into a mere shadow of your former self, bitter and irrational. A constant crusade is tiresome and dull, both for the crusader and the one against whom the crusade is being led.
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