Cash for vasectomy....

[Existentialist]

Aka - I can redefine anything to what I want! Nya~Nya!

Well you can, but I trust you not to, and if you do, I trust you to have a good reason for it, and if you don't, I'm sure you'll trust me to respond appropriately. All conversations depend on mutual trust. If that breaks down, you can't legislate for it in its place.

So if a car dealer gave you a significant cash back for signing into an installment plan that you possibly can or cannot afford/want, is it bribery?

Well it's all a matter of opinion isn't it? If you really, really loathe capitalism and everything about it, or even just car dealers, you may well look on cash back as a bribe. Infact you may have any number of reasons for thinking it's a bribe or an attempted bribe. I wouldn't, personally, but that's my opinion based on my experience of car dealers, but if somebody else did want to call it a bribe, that's cool. There's no right or wrong in these things, just personal opinions.

What about paying someone to live in a homeless shelter instead of being on the street? Is that bribery - after all, you are depriving them of their "right" in some way to be roaming about freely. Where does incentives stop and bribery begin?

Depends. Let's say there's a particular hotspot of homeless people next to a middle class area that the authorities want to target so go round offering immediate cash payments to encourage those people into a homeless shelter. Yes, that would be a bribe, I think. Normal benefits paid to all homeless people probably wouldn't.

Define that. Else, you're merely re-emitting the usual fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) commonly associated with political causes.

Jolly interesting, I'm sure.

Paying drug addicts to have sterilisation operations is a bribe - unethical, shabby, inadvisable and actionable.