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Gulliver’s contentment reflects his new perspective on Houyhnhmn superiority, as does his disturbing comfort with treating human beings’ bodies like dispensable animal pelts to make clothes from. He has ceased to see the Yahoos as human beings, as sentient entities. He sees them as animals. Although there are clearly virtuous advantages to Houyhnhmn over human society, Gulliver’s extreme pro-Houyhnhmn perspective seems problematic as it results in self-loathing and an inability to accept his own body. Gulliver may imitate a horse and aspire to forget his own humanity in favor of becoming Houyhnhmn but, from the Houyhnhmns’ perspective, Gulliver is clearly a human being who will never truly fit in Houyhnhmn society. Though it would be considered grotesque and self-debasing to kiss a horse’s hoof in human society, Gulliver insists that, from his perspective, kissing a Houyhnhmn hoof was an honor. Any reader who thinks otherwise, he warns, just doesn’t know the truth about Houyhnhmn superiority.