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Rhetorical tool? No it's a logical fallacy because you are misrepresenting the argument made by the OP in an attempt to attack it and you're confusing the deaths of family members with a little bit of lost revenue.

Here's a better analogy for you.

This post may as well be talking about how household electricity is the worst invention of the 19th century because of how inefficient long distance DC power transmission is.