Enmity requires only existential difference, not moral evil or competition.

Evidence

The political enemy need not be morally evil or aesthetically ugly; he need not appear as an economic competitor, and it may even be advantageous to engage with him in business transactions. But he is, nevertheless, the other, the stranger; and it is sufficient for his nature that he is, in a specially intense way, existentially something different and alien, so that in the extreme case conflicts with him are possible. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 697

Categorization

• XREF: Follows Schmitt’s friend/enemy distinction — connects to the reader’s sustained examination of how categories of enmity get constructed.