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I would view logic and emotion as two key elements in anyone's mental underpinnings. The key here, as in many instances throughout life, is to establish a balanced equation featuring these two principle items.
Without emotion, there is no drive to utilize logic. Why appeal for a logical action or answer if there is no trace of emotional involvement? Here, emotion is a fuel in the pursuit of logic.
Conversely, without logic comes misguided emotion. This can represent itself on many levels, ranging from the temper tantrums you see from infants to the temper tantrums you see from upper management. Logic is, in this sense, the moderator of emotion.
These are two psychological elements whose fluctuations will hopefully drop as one experiences more from their existence and learns more of their surrounding environment. To classify them as opposites would indeed be correct, however only with the understanding that, as with many things (good/evil, love/hate), they are needed in order to effectively balance one another off.
Re-reading this, I realize it's coming off more as a lecture than as an opinion. I shall re-iterate then, that this is merely a judgment based on the experiences I have pursued thus far. The beautiful thing is that in five years, months, days, minutes or even seconds I can review this question and face the possibility of viewing it in an entirely different context due to an increased exposure to what surrounds me.
And that, in itself, pleases me to no end. Cheers!
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