Not "useful," but "helpful."

• The question “Is X be useful or not?” is a strange one.

• Not automatically helpful.

• You make use of.

• Similar to False dichotomy in that it asks a dichotomous question and it is wrong, but How to take the axis of confrontation is a strange pattern

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