Wednesday 30 September 2009

A moral conker dilemma

I have been struggling with a quandry and it is beginning to interfere with my enjoyment of conker season.

Is it morally wrong to collect conkers within a park which includes a children's playground? And how far geographically do you need to be from a school, when collecting the lovely smooth, mahogany covered jewels so as not to deny a child of it's outdoorsy fun and therefore personal development? Should one collect conkers where thou willst and teach the kiddies the importance of eagle eyed observation and getting-there-first?

2 comments:

  1. I wouldn't worry about it - Kids these days probably don't know what conkers are... The word doesn't even appear in my spell check!

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  2. But they'll never know what a conker is if I collect them all!

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