Horrid idea. Like thinkfree mentioned, what should we extend this incentive to? Disabled people? Alcoholics? The mentally retarded? Racists? Teenage mothers? Those depressed and suicidal? People who wants kids so they feel loved/other selfish reason? Also, like ishina mentioned, we should not lose sight of the fact that although drug addicts and all the aforementioned unfortunate individuals, are still human beings and they need help not some hard cash, which will not deter these negative behaviours. Dealing simply with the symptoms doesn't get to the cure of the problem.
+1
Don't really see the objection, more money should be offered as an incentive to be sterilized, maybe starting with the poor. Since rather then just the drugs addicts within the next 100 years we can lower the world population and also drastically reduce poverty, since children will not be born into a poverty stricken family, thus being removed from the cycle of poverty.
Sometimes, we need to make rational decisions as opposed to emotional ones, we live on a planet with finite resources.
What?? You even want the
poor to be sterilised. Shocking, King Tut!! Shocking!