this arguably , is a natural social contract that calms roiled , effusive emotion , at least among friends , or to qualify it further , friends who seek empathy from other friends,73 not that the great majority readily do this when superficiality and facades are a conduit toward most pleasure and profit alliances ; 74but if , since the inception of this species , this were a predominate mechanism in all relationships , there would never have been all this antagonism in family , city , and nation in civil strife or wars through so many millennia of this species as well as the ten or more earlier versions of man , and this planet would never have been such a sullied sphere .