User blog comment:Scottish-Terror/Pure Evil Proposal: Magistrate/@comment-24758512-20190511025949/@comment-2059440-20190511041250

to me the final nail in the coffin (as said above) is Magistrate is NOT depraved by the standards of his species culture.. which we as humans hate but that's why morality is..well.. complicated : Magistrate is a Hate Sink and probably meant as a protest against fascism etc but in-universe ALL of his kind were equally warlike and cruel, with Hulk's friend being a "deviant" by their cultural standards.

in short he was like a Spartan who refused to fight.. which would be seen as honorable by peaceful folk but to a society like the Spartans that kind of behavior would be seen as very troubling.. if not criminal.