Bloody Diamonds

I found this article on a blog that another blog I read regularly had cited and linked to. Got it?

I have no desire for diamonds. Of course, I am male (as if that makes any sense), and the only use a diamond has for me (well, given that I wear very little jewelry) is perhaps to be looked at on someone else's finger.

I tried to argue for (er, well, suggest) a stone other than a diamond when I got engaged last year. There are lots of other pretty glittery things to choose from. I even provided links to well-written articles that I thought made the case against diamonds very well. I wasn't successful, but I tried. DeBeers has been too successful, methinks.

We're too wealthy, too lazy, and too complacent. We're not really evil, but it's easy to see why others might view us that way.