For what it's worth, I believe the judgment here has been reasonable. The Doctor's crimes were exposed once. No one turned against him to my knowledge.

[For better or worse. She knows it's easier for her to say. No one knows she was the favorite killer of a maniac. She isn't advertising it. Gamora does empathize with him. She tries as best she can to talk him through this while standing like the statue she is, propped against the doorway.] I understand that. When I first came to the Guardians, it was how I dealt with things. I was violent and angry. It was all I knew how to be.

[Only Groot inspired any softness initially. Peter and the others came with time.] I changed. You will too far more easily than me if you wish to. There is no shame in taking time before seeing their reactions.