I think it is often rather easy to find opposing motivations and characteristics in various mechanisms and concepts. Love vs. Hate, Pro Life vs. Pro Choice, etc. I think doing so often can cause one to miss out on any sort of nuance or detail. Though sometimes a look at the extrema can give one a fuller picture of the object or concept under consideration. Even so, in most cases such divisions don't apply across the board. I can love someone and hate them. I can be pro choice in certain circumstances and pro life in others. The concepts of masculine and feminine are often useful in abstract, but are completely useless when dealing with actual people because most people are a complex mixture of both.
Being aware of opposites can be useful, but i don't think it is in most situations, because there is so much meaningful information that exists in the gray area between the poles. It's kind've like the false dichotomy presented by the patrick swayze's character in donnie darko. According to him one can only act out of love or fear. Perhaps such a vast oversimplification is useful for a very few, but for most people the range of emotional motivation is much more colorful. Boiling something so complex as emotion down to two poles isn't very useful to anyone.
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