He's not evil!
He's just tired, stressed, possesses the sort of arrogance that says "I'm smarter then you, therefore I'm right', possibly is a little glitchy from recent events (trying to keep the Nova Force from killing Richard for a year, recovering from a Phalanx infection, and being rather painfully crashed while getting off Galactus's latest meal), and my own theory, suffering from a not-so-mild case of Post-traumatic stress after all that.