Do you give incentives for good behavior from your children?

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Aren't all incentives just truly a form of bribery? What are we really teaching our children as they get older. If they are good, respectful, don't decide to fight one another, that they will receive a good reward? Accordingly to the dictionary BRIBERY means: the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements Even if the parent's intentions or inducements are supposedly good, are we basically corrupting our young ones. What if they decide to hang out with the wrong crowd (God forbid), and the wrong crowd is bribed to commit a felony crime. Looking back on it, do you think our children would have the parent to blame for planting the seed of bribery into them? I wanted this discussion to be controversial on all levels, so no one's thoughts or ideas will be shot down. Personally, I will still continue to offer my kids incentives for good behavior as well as continue to teach them the difference between right and wrong and to know the intentions of other people; so that they can make their own decisions as they become older.