"Oh, I know that's not 'the whole of who you are'. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's part of your problem. You've just got far too many decent people around to keep the system in equilibrium, leaving it vulnerable to action-reactions spirals of suppression and revolt. Your social structure's not nearly oppressive enough, either. I mean, families? Oldest source of emotional compromises on the books. Replace them with creches of tank-born people engineered for greater submissiveness and there'd be fewer compliance issues. I'd blame the Liozh for having too many ethics but, well, that's clearly not the case since, um."

Alaric realizes that he's about to let information slip while also giving out really terrible social engineering advice. He decides to sit down rather than continue looming, hoping to make the (ex-)magistrate more comfortable.