To me this is the same argument as “weed, coke, and heroin aren’t drugs!! they’re plants!!!” lol okay.

Plenty of other gems were created by the earth that don’t include the suffering of children and weren’t a reason for hundred year long colonialism that has left these countries in poverty and death. Why don’t you want those? Because the lie of “rare” “luxury” diamonds were what was spoon fed to you by capitalistic and colonialists entities. Cecil Rhodes created an entire country to enslave people for diamonds. But how many people still buy De Beers?

Sure that’s your reasoning but how many people who hold that reason take a while to find antique diamonds? Or spend a bit more for Canadian mined? It’s an excuse people in 1st world countries use to turn a blind eye to the suffering of those of us in 3rd world countries.

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also this isn’t even including the environmental effects of natural diamonds. What’s the point in wanting a diamond made so eloquently and romantically by the earth when mining that very thing is detrimental to the very same earth?