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From: [email protected] (Russell Turpin)
Subject: Re: Eumemics (was: Eugenics)

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Cross-posted and with followups directed to talk.politics.theory.

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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
> Indeed, we are today a nation at risk!  The threat is not from bad genes,
> but bad memes!  Memes are the basic units of culture, as opposed to genes
> which are the units of genetics.
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> We must expand the public-health laws to include quarantine of people
> with harmful memes. ...

In other words, we should jail people who say the wrong 
things.  In this advocacy, we can see a truly ugly meme.
Does Mark Robert Thorson advocate jailing himself?

Russell