I think that clarity of distinguishing different ideas from each other is useful. I think that it's bad to be to vague to be wrong. In this case I think that _rpd simply switched from one meme to a different meme. I don't think it takes mind reading to see the difference between A: "all human interaction is manipulation" and B: "a lot of human interaction is manipulation because people are acting out of inferority" .

A get's used to justify that being manipulative isn't bad, because everybody is always manipualtive. B doesn't lend itself to that conclusion and is thus a completely different meme.

In particular A get's used that way in this article. Asking for favors that way might be manipulative but that doesn't matter as all communication is manipulative.