What makes it aberration? [ Strange repeats, drilling in on that particular word choice. His voice has taken on a faintly professorial air as if he’s questioning a theorem, interrogating an assumption. ] You and I, we’ve got glowing green shards in our hands that can seal rips in reality. Anyone who sees them knows we’re rifters. We’re already visibly aberrant. And just because you can read minds and get a little tentacle-y sometimes, I don’t think that necessarily entails a judgment call either way.

[ This angle is perhaps a little self-serving and biased, considering Stephen Stranges across the multiverse and their predilection towards alarming-looking spells, but. He folds his hands on the desk in front of him. ]

Magic’s gross and ugly and a little slimy sometimes, sure. But if it gets the job done, I don’t see what the problem is. Any tool in a kit.