Talk:Blood diamond/Archive 5

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Archive 1 Archive 3 Archive 4 Archive 5

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 10 external links on Blood diamond. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

  • If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
  • If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 08:48, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Why are blood diamonds bad?

I don't expect Wikipedia to have a moral stance and say "this is bad", but I would appreciate if the article told, in some neutral way, why blood diamonds are a thing people don't like. Does it hurt people? Who? How? Could the article include citations like "This important UN person spoke about blood diamonds and declared that they were harmful in this and that way"; etc.

Right now the article just seems to assume that everyone knows that blood diamonds are bad and why they're bad, and just explains who does it and who fights against it.

2A01:CB00:B62:6500:9008:4F6D:11BE:E3EF (talk) 21:38, 2 January 2017 (UTC)


Yeah... I came to this talk page just to say that whilst things like child and exploitative labour etc. are obviously bad things, they are more artefacts of the capitalist process than anything else and each abuse should be addressed and possibly dealt with; but this 'process' for 'blood diamonds' seems to be merely a way of blackguarding and isolating governments/groups one does not approve of ( aka revolution [ bad ] --- against present governments established by revolution [ good ] ) whereby human rights abuses etc. only matter when the bad guys do it.
I recently noticed the page on US Steel has some interesting information on the use of unpaid prisoners, yet no-one cares compared to the [ enemy ] Soviet or Nazi use of unpaid prisoners... Claverhouse (talk) 02:00, 3 February 2018 (UTC)