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£200 to be sterilised

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 8:13 am
by danoldboy
"Drug addicts across the UK are being offered money to be sterilised by an American charity.

Project Prevention is offering to pay £200 to any drug user in London, Glasgow, Bristol, Leicester and parts of Wales who agrees to be operated on."


What the fuck! I can't even begin to address how messed up this is.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11545519

Re: £200 to be sterilised

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 8:36 am
by Rekah
at first i thought yeah 200 quid for doing nothing, then i realized what they meant by sterilised :(

Re: £200 to be sterilised

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 8:52 am
by nicenice
What a bitch, someone should sterilise her. This is the worst idea ever.

Re: £200 to be sterilised

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 9:11 am
by DRTY
nicenice wrote:What a bitch, someone should sterilise her. This is the worst idea ever.
unless you hate kids and love drugs

Re: £200 to be sterilised

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:46 am
by HRKRT
saw this in the news this morning, pretty shocking. not only is their target audience vunerable people, the thing stinks of eugenics.

Re: £200 to be sterilised

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 12:31 pm
by badger
it does make sense in a warped way but offering money to people who are likely to be desperate for it means that that may be their true motivation for getting it done rather than any real understanding that having kids is a bad idea

i'm guessing this kind of sterelisation isn't reversible either? encouraging addicts to make a choice like this whilst you're under the influence isn't very ethical if you can't change your mind about it in the future :?

Re: £200 to be sterilised

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 1:13 pm
by hasezwei
this. is. so. disgusting.

i don't even know what to say, wtf...

Re: £200 to be sterilised

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 1:39 pm
by Carljnrendora
There are gonna be loadsa people out their who might just do this for the extra cash for drugs... It's in noway a help towards any drug addict.

Re: £200 to be sterilised

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 3:19 pm
by BLAHBLAHJAH
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Re: £200 to be sterilised

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 4:05 pm
by Motorway to Roswell
Revolting. Every day the world becomes a little more like something Chris Morris has written. He must be a prophet. Human beings never cease to amaze me.

Re: £200 to be sterilised

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 4:08 pm
by capo ultra
Carljnrendora wrote:There are gonna be loadsa people out their who might just do this for the extra cash for drugs... It's in noway a help towards any drug addict.
it's not meant to be a help for the addict, it's meant to stop them having kids so the kids don't grow up fucked up

Re: £200 to be sterilised

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 4:08 pm
by telefang
this is sick
also it IS eugenics
being prone to addiction is a genetic trait
edit: by the way where the hell is the money coming from

Re: £200 to be sterilised

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 4:38 pm
by deepfiend
The sickest thing is that its an American 'charity' working in this country. Why hasn't this been banned/fire bombed yet?

Re: £200 to be sterilised

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 4:44 pm
by Motorway to Roswell
It just exploits the needs of a drug addict to fulfill its own agenda. This needs to be shut down.

Re: £200 to be sterilised

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 6:51 pm
by kay
It's their own choice ainit? No one's forcing them to get sterilised.

I mean, if they're stupid enough to be sterilised, then well. Might not be so bad for the gene pool. Also, some of them might actually not ever want to have kids, so why not? There are plenty of non-drug using adults who don't have kids. If anything, this is discriminatory against them. They should be given £200 too.

Re: £200 to be sterilised

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 6:53 pm
by ashley
What if you're infertile anyway?

BLAM, free £200 wonga.

(Not that I shoot blanks but you know, loophole already...)

Re: £200 to be sterilised

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:23 pm
by RandomEyez
When u think about the life of a poor child being brought up by smackheads who have no idea how to look after themselves, let alone a child, and the effects of neglect, bad parenting and who knows what other domestic problems the child would inevitably be exposed to, is doesn't seem like such a bad idea.

Bit fucked up, but would help improve the gene pool and if the addict wisens up, gets clean and suddenly realises he or she is ready to be a parent, fuck em! They'd just have to accept the consequences of the choices they've made throughout their life. And adoption is always an option, although would ex-addicts be allowed to adopt? Prob not.

Not saying I support the idea, but can see the arguments for both sides.

Re: £200 to be sterilised

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:27 pm
by Motorway to Roswell
Fair enough if you're an addict and choose to be sterilised, but to dangle money in front of people, exploiting their addiction, to bribe them into being sterilised is foul.

Re: £200 to be sterilised

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:40 pm
by RandomEyez
Yeah thats the bit thats pretty fucked up on a moral level.

But when you consider a heavy addict who isn't in the right frame a mind to make a serious decision, what would be the worst scenario...choosing to get sterilised then blowing that £200 on their drug of choice, or choosing to have a baby with an equally as fucked up and incapable partner?

I know what i'd prefer them to do!

Re: £200 to be sterilised

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:49 pm
by mugger t
HRKRT wrote:their target audience vunerable people
Truth