It's up to the reader to decide what is worthwhile for them. Also, whether that quote is relevant or not is not what is being argued. The original dispute (on

It's up to the reader to decide what is worthwhile for them. Also, whether that quote is relevant or not is not what is being argued. The original dispute (on a surface level) was about a "rhetorical technique". Now you say it is manipulative and dishonest, which is a completely different thing and obviously false.