You are buying your spouse, significant other, or close friend a ring. You decide to show your reasonableness and buy a cubic zirconium ring that sells at 1⁄50 the cost of a mined diamond and that any normal person could not tell from a mined diamond just by looking at it. In fact, the zirconium will have more brilliance and fewer occlusions (imperfections) than a mined diamond.

a. How will your spouse (significant other, close friend) likely react?

b. Why?

c. Is this reaction justified?