I'd rather give it to charity

Just watched Blood Diamond and it made me sad. What about diamonds are appealing? You can get fake diamonds for 10 bucks that look no different than 10,000$ diamonds. How nice would it be to find a girl who said this. When I hear that I will probably be willing to dish out 10,000$ for some diamonds for her. Even if a diamond isn't from a conflict area or anything, the monetary value of it is artificially created basically by monopoly.