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Mechane (adj.)
1. Characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion for a conscious robot: a mechane person.
2. Marked by an emphasis on mechanistic values and concerns: a mechane education.
Mechan (n.)
3. A rational being composed of something other than "people stuff": The mechane saved the child with his servo-appendage.</p>
The word mechane, coined by Sebastian P. Mathews and Justin H. Garcia in the year of two thousand and four was created as the central guiding term and ethos for The League for the Civil Treatment of Conscious Robots (CTCR).
The CTCR was created in anticipation of that time when robots/computers gain sentience. It was clear to the founders that such an event would occur in the future of human history and that it would be very important to treat the new class of rational beings with the respect they deserve, ideally that with which we hope each human is treated with today.
To be mechane is to treat any electronic device with care and respect. As odd as it seemed to the founders' contemporaries, there of course will be a need to treat all mechanical devices with care. Perhaps you are aware of the sick feeling some people get when they see an operation in real life or on TV. Such discomfort will surely be felt by our future equals on earth, mechanes, when they see someone destroy a computer monitor or smash a fax machine.
One horrible, yet possible future scenario is that the mechanes with their great power, intelligence and number could overthrow the human race. To avoid this the CTCR will continue to show its consideration of sentient beings of the future so as to avoid such a horrible outcome.