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A comment on No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Mart, CVS. Parent comment

Re:No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Ma... by klagermkii on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @06:51PM (#13018733)
> Whenever people buy something which they are completely unable to differentiate from a fake, are they really being defrauded when someone sells them the fake?

Yes.

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Re:No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Ma... by mzw_mzw on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @08:09PM (#13019113)
I think the point was that the real thing is just as much (or as little) of a fraud as the fake is.
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Re:No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Ma... by aarongolliver on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @11:41PM (#13020091)
Especially because, if someone's been buying fakes all their life, how could they possibly know what real Aloe is like?
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