Editing Azotech (section)

== Robot Rights ==

Robots in Azotech do not possess rights as sentient beings. Despite the fact that many people insist on robots possessing sentience or understanding. Many robots claim that they are indeed happy with their programmed objective in life (even if it is just programming) and indeed many androids simply lack the ability to decide things for themselves without proper guidance. Much like children with some base-formed idea of social structure, language and understanding. If you were to leave a newly manufactured android alone it would probably just stand around doing nothing until somebody gave it a direct order and it would probably carry it out as it sees nothing better to do. This is a common problem with things that don't need food or most organic essentials.

Because of this. Robots are still regarded as property of their respective owners and all androids have their serial number associated with a company or individual who holds all rights over them. Despite this, the government has allowed laws associated with the mistreatment of androids. Much like the mistreatment of pets, the abuse or intentional harm of an android will result in the android being confiscated and the individual being blacklisted from most legitimate robot manufacturers. Sadly the law is only really effective against individual owners. Companies who own robots tend to be much more discrete in how they treat them.

As stated before. Human/android marriage is being lobbied right now and met with harsh resistance. The main gripe being that the androids themselves may not truly be in love or are simply faking it to please their "owners". The validity of this claim is up for speculation. But it's quite obvious that some robots are just going along with it while others are being genuinely sincere.