Cash for vasectomy....

[Existentialist]

Bribery is not exclusively a crime. In fact, come to think of it, a bribe can also be an incentive. It depends on the context. I would say an unethical cash inducement is definitely a bribe, including paying drug addicts cash sums to induce them to have vasectomies.

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Yes - bribing.

I completely disagree. Society pays women to have children all the time and we don't call that a bribe. What's the difference between paying a drug addict to have a slew of children and paying one to make it so he cannot have children? What about clinics that offer money for sperm? Is that a bribe? Offering cookies for blood? Is that a bribe?

I don't see what the objection is. I wish a shitload of people would do this. As a person who is raising a practically absent mother's child (she has five others, three live with her and their lives are horrifying), I can tell you that this is a good idea. I hope they start doing it for women. That way I don't have to pissed that they let neglectful mothers keep their kids anymore. They just won't have them to begin with.

Personally, I don't want any children of my own. Unfortunately, I'm not a drug addict, so I would have to pay to be sterilized.

Society certainly pays women who have children - if you mean child benefit and tax credits, usually because vast numbers of women and children would live in poverty without those benefits. That's different from paying women to have children. I think a bribe is something that drags down the ethical integrity of an incentive: paying a drug addict to undergo an operation that destroys his/her reproductive capability is pretty shabby and I don't see how genuine consent can be obtained.

It's a bribe.