Is video game violence memetic?

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Originally Posted by smurf

First off I cannot control infection of my body and cellular mutations. Therefore this is not the same thing.

You can't control your replication and emission of culture very well either, except perhaps by quarantine or maybe deliberately inflicting severe brain damage.

Not "believing" in what is a scientifically viable model (which in TS, memetics is) doesn't immunize you to whatever it is modelling. Not "believing" in evolution doesn't mean that you aren't subject to selection pressures or can't get infected by an antibiotic resistant bacteria.

Somewhere the researchers are going to be infected by these dangerous memes.

Somewhere an epidemiologist gets infected with a disease. Somewhere a chemist poisons themselves. Somewhere a physicist irradiates themselves. Science has always been potentially dangerous.

Cannot it be undone, can video game niceness produce the opposite affect?

It can be. There are rules for deprogramming in Toxic Memes!

Are memes transmitted by:

Memes are replicators of culture. They are transmitted the way culture is transmitted: communication. Successful communication transmits memes.