Why? What harm can it do? You don't have to give up or compromise any part of your prized identity as an rationalist and an empiricist in order to indulge your biological imperatives to relate with the world as the squishy meatbag that your are.

To deny your social instincts when you yourself admit that to do so does not come naturally is also irrational. Embrace your emotional drives and know thyself! We haven't hit the singularity yet ;)

EDIT: also calling it a rover wasn't a great help was it.