I'm talking about abstract concepts that exist in relation to their opposite by definition and are made manifest in the world through conscious experience. Of course some people suffer and have very little happiness in their life. But that does not negate happiness and suffering's dependency on the other for defining what they are. Suffering is a lack of happiness. Happiness is a lack of suffering. You can try to define them by what they are synonymous with, i.e. happiness is joy, pleasure, contentedness, etc -- but those synonyms have their own antonyms on which their definitions are dependent on.
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