Annie Hoey (Labour)
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I thank the witnesses; this has been really interesting. Is it possible for us to get to a point of truly voluntary decisions when we would nearly have to live in a utopia for that to be so? I truly mean this in the least facetious way possible. Is that possible without living in a utopian society where there is no class division or poverty and where every single person has access to the exact same services? That might not be possible and I do not know that it is possible to get to that fully equal level for every human being and that would take out the fact that we all just have different thought processes. Is it possible, therefore, for us to get to a stage, either with legislation or with this topic, where we can have people whose decisions are truly voluntary? Or is there a prerequisite there that is simply impossible for us to get to? I will have second and third follow-up questions to that question as well.