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Re:Diamonds Are Bullshit by mullingitover on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @01:42PM (#5408865)
The problem with buying diamonds from anywhere is that you're giving conflict diamonds added value through the simple fact of your demand for them. They're a fungible commodity. Essentially there is no diamond that is not a blood diamond.
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Re:Diamonds Are Bullshit by taejo on Friday March 22, 2013 @09:22AM (#5422704)
Absolutely. Buying Canadian/Russian/Indian diamonds doesn't help.

Hmm, actually, they aren't perfectly fungible. 100 one-carat diamonds aren't worth the same as one 100-carat diamond, and even diamonds of the same weight aren't substitutable. But with respect to country of origin, yeah.

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