> From the memetic point of view, they’re as complementary as caterpillars and butterflies. Instead of judging, we just note that somehow we accidentally create

> From the memetic point of view, they’re as complementary as caterpillars and butterflies. Instead of judging, we just note that somehow we accidentally created a replicator, and replicators are going to replicate until something makes them stop. Caterpillar DNA is butterfly DNA. Toxoplasma DNA in the cat is toxoplasma DNA in the rat. While there's poetry to saying the hatred is a single life form regardless of where it lives, I think it's a more accurate model to say there are two symbiotic replicators, whose impact on the environment (mostly) makes it more hospitable for the other. Bombs, however directed, contain only a tiny portion of the information content making up the meme.