Waitangi Tribunal theme Q - Foreshore [pdf, 559 KB]
...impossible and is in any case intellectually and morally bankrupt. It amounts to a repudiation of some of the few genuinely enlightened and progressive developments to have occurred in the twentieth century, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To insist that there are no universally applicable norms and that concepts of law, custom and justice are entirely culturally relative is easily disproved (what if it is established that a particular culture is shown to have had the...