User blog comment:Admiral Phoenix/Memetic Warfare/@comment-11135771-20150106035337

It's an interesting concept, I'll give you that. I do like the idea. However, it would be most assuredly classified as a WMD, and thus subject to the NYP. Additionally, there would be a lot of moral/ethical issues involved with using it, seeing as you'd effectively be driving an entire population insane to the point where they become nonfunctional and would largely end up dying by starvation, dehydration, exhaustion, or suicide. Then there's also the question of how you would control it. If anything went wrong, it could easily turn into an apocalyptic-scale event that wipes out literally everyone. So, the risks vs. reward of using it wouldn't be terribly good.

Also, relevant link (just imagine that the "symbol" here is a memetic weapon and everything after its introduction is a hallucination that it is designed to cause): http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Memetic_Symbol