If you were going to buy a piece of diamond jewelry, would you ask the store to provide proof that the diamond(s) is not an African conflict diamond?
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If it was me, yes, since I know what you're referring to. But how many other people do? It's just like buying shoes from Nike. There are sweatshops hired to manufacture these shoes, but does anyone really consider that fact first before buying their pair? I bet not a lot of people here in Answerbag know about this sweatshop thing either.
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The blood that has been shed over diamonds is enough for me to never buy one. Even if the diamond you buy isn't from a conflict area, you are supporting the diamond industry which tightly monopolizes supply to justify their outrageous prices, and you are perpetuating the style driven demand for diamonds that made the blood diamond trade so lucrative in the first place; you are still a part of the problem.
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No. A diamond is a diamond. Let's suppose that you come across a treasure chest that was passed down through your family line and you ended up with it. You find out that the treasure chest once belonged to pirates that were notorious for killing innocent people. Would you keep the chest?
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erm... no. At the end of the day, the diamonds are going to be on the shelves whoever buys them. Me not buying a diamond isnt going to stop any African conflicts.
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An unscrupulous store manager could print his own certificates of 'proof'. I think it's better to buy from a trusted store. Some stores publicly guarantee the source and authenticity of their products. As for me, I can't tell one diamond from another, and so I don't buy them. I have enough expensive habits as is.
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No If you are going to buy diamonds there is no way for that proof to also prove that the diamond is not related or connected to the diamond conflicts. There are only so many diamond companies, mines, investors and organisations that even if your particular diamond isn't a blood diamond and you have a certificate which supports that; the chances are that you are still providing money to the companies/organisations/industry responsible for blood diamonds; or responsible for harming people. We either do not buy diamonds full stop, or we stop fooling ourselves that our particular diamond probably has never come into being as a product of a system which harms others just because it is not from a mine involved in African conflicts. Even when there is no conflict connected, chances are people are still being abused for that diamond in a round-about way. No diamond which is a product of the diamond industry is free from blood.
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Personally no, because every diamond that has ever been mined has had some form of conflict involved with it. African or otherwise.
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no it's none of my buisness where it came from i'd be more worryied about it being a fake or being over charged.
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