timtyler comments on Recognizing memetic infections and forging resistance memes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 26 October 2013 12:06:46PM * 0 points [-]

I feel like you're trying to say we should care about "memetic life" as well as... other life.

I don't know about 'should' - but many humans do act as though they care about their favoured memes.

Catholicism, Islam, patriotism - there are many memes that are literally 'to die for'.