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38.104.154.254
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02:00:36 PM Sep 3rd 2010
Strangely ennough, I am not sure if the movie "Virus" qualifies. He used the word to qualify humanity, not to describe itself. And it's not working in the classic "infect and spread" classic virus modus operandi against humanity, as it simply wants their body part.

So.. you want to keep the example?
Notadoktor
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02:11:55 AM Jan 27th 2012
<blockquote>The viral analogy has been used by opponents of religion to describe it. Richard Dawkins even named the second part of his documentary on religion "The Virus of Faith".</blockquote>

Can we delete that? It's unnecessarily jingonistic, and rude.
CrypticMirror
04:55:08 AM Jan 27th 2012
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The trope description leaves the option of a memetic virus open, so it seems they are using it within the definition of the trope. I say it stays, as long as it is made clear it isn't the wiki's opinion, but just the way it is used in the example we're documenting. I don't see that example as being particularly jingo-istic. We're merely relaying how it was used. We've neutrally stated it is used by some opponents, and a specific example of how it is used without taking an actual opinion on it (pro or against).

We're descriptive, not prescriptive.
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