Disorders,

Why the hate?

I look to science for answers to the underlying forces to most if not all questions. Questions of behavior and belief are no different.
One of the most interesting ideas to come to my attention lately is the idea of Memes, a term Richard Dawkins coined in 1976, coincidentally at the time I was studying evolutionary biology. Having moved on to related fields, I only became aware of memes recently, but it seems to me they appear to answer and explain many behaviors accurately (and perhaps not by coincidence along much the lines I'd been thinking for years).
Memes are ideas that behave as viruses, infecting people and changing their beliefs and behaviors in order to reproduce themselves. They don't have to be true, or cause no harm to their hosts, they only need to influence the host to reproduce and spread them much like a virus does.

Just as most microbes have developed defense mechanisms to try and kill other competing or food source microbes, memeplexes often develop defense mechanisms to try to kill off their competition. The demonization of the holders of competing memeplexes in addition, the attempts to discredit their memes(ideas) through 'spinning/falsifying' the facts and other logical or illogical arguments is part of these defense mechanisms. This seems to be the source of the hatred, some memes are intolerant of others.
~Down