Who, incidentally, rode camels.
Mary rode the donkey.
The only one who used elephants was Hannibal, attempting to crush Rome when it was still a republic.
People help people. OK. What happens when they organize for mutual aid? Government. Somebody has to lead, somebody has to follow, and there ought to be referees to handle disputes and a feedback loop so the followers can give input. Unless you are suggesting some sort of anarchist syndicalist set-up, what we have left to choose from is some form of monarchy, oligarchy, or democracy (representative or direct). Hint: direct democracy only works when everyone can actually visit everyone else.
Though I realize that the concept of equality legally enforced by government is anathema to some people, it's what we've got. And as FDR's good friend Winston Churchill observed, . . . democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
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Along with the Magi.
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