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On the other hand, not wearing the gem means those people slaved away in the mines for nothing.

• kibwen 3y ago
  > for nothing Rather, I suspect they slaved away in the mines so that they wouldn't be whipped and have their hands cut off.
  • Spooky23 3y ago
    Don’t buy silver or gold either. The genocide of entire peoples was committed to extract them from Latin American mines.
    • xp84 3y ago
      And... not buying a gold chain today will reanimate how many fallen Aztec warriors? (I'd never question your own choice to not buy it on those grounds, but proselytizing it seems to imply there are some stakes here that make it worth encouraging "everybody" to take up the same cause, and I just don't see how it matters.)
      • Spooky23 3y ago
        I’m being sarcastic! Unfortunately human suffering is all too common, so virtue signaling about everything has limited import. In areas where value is more tradition than intrinsic (ie rhino horns, whalebone) it’s probably effective, but at a certain point it’s navel gazing.
    • 05 3y ago
      And since most connectors use gold plated pins and lead free solder has silver in it, don’t buy electronics..