[themaninthedark]

Do people go out of the way to buy conflict diamonds? or is it more people try to buy cheap diamonds?

Even if you don't go looking for cheap diamonds, how can you be sure your diamond is conflict free?

>"Nearly nine years after the Kimberley Process was launched, the sad truth is that most consumers still cannot be sure where their diamonds come from", Global Witness founding director Charmian Gooch told BBC World Service's World Business Report. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-16027011

For fungible goods, you can not guarantee where and what made the product you are using. That is why we (try) to have systems in place to do so.

[gruez]

> Do people go out of the way to buy conflict diamonds? or is it more people try to buy cheap diamonds?

I don't think apple is going out of their way to find sweatshops either.

>Even if you don't go looking for cheap diamonds, how can you be sure your diamond is conflict free?

Are you arguing for nihilism here? ie. "we can't really be sure that even conflict free diamonds are conflict free, so it's fine for me to buy diamonds from a random diamond dealer in Sierra Leone"?

[autoexec]

> I don't think apple is going out of their way to find sweatshops either.

Apple goes out of their way to find the lowest cost manufacturing that gets the job done. I think apple doesn't care what the conditions of workers are as long as they can pocket the money they save by selecting the manufactures that cost them the least. As long as people continue to buy iphones their factories could be fueled by burning children alive in furnaces for all they care.