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The ideational equivalent of genocide. A meme is an idea. Memes are to cultural evolution what genes are to biological evolution, any idea that spreads or doesn't dependent upon culture's evolutionary process. Memocide therefore is any sort of absolute-faith-based fundamentalism, a holy war to eradicate from culture all traces of an idea considered evil by someone whose confidence level in a countervailing idea reaches 100%.
Did my folks like my punk music? Are you kidding? Their response was memocide. If they could, they would have eradicated punk not just from our house but from the universe!
Memocide by Jeremy Sherman June 2, 2008
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Metricide 

The killing of one's own staff in their attempt to achieve un-realistic metrics.
No wonder that unit is short of staff, the Chief is known to commit metricide.
Metricide by GreekMan57 September 5, 2016