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Are Blood Diamonds a Marketing Technique?
There's a 50-50 chance it came from Russia. And you just gave money to Putin's regime. I'm pretty sure that constitutes a blood diamond. There are diamonds that come from all over where they're funding people who are doing terrible things. But we only refer to the ones from conflict zones in Africa, in a civil war as blood diamonds because it was a marketing technique to make you feel good about what you were buying. So is my diamond a good diamond? I don't know. I have to check with the woman sitting next to me and look at hers. Mine's better than hers than its good one. That makes hers a bad one. We want something that somebody