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The live action movie made that more obvious, but the animated film he's less awful. And everything else is standard for the time.
If you are gonna confront a noble, its gotta be a mob or nothing.
An asylum for "crazy old maurice" vs declaring him possessed by the devil and killed is pretty forward thinking for French peasants.
One of the main points of the original movie is that nearly everyone in the town is an asshole because they think Belle is weird. Gaston also thinks Belle is weird. The only difference is he also wants to bang her, and pursues her relentlessly even though Belle makes it very clear she wants nothing to do with him. Gaston is a creep.
If Gaston wanted to confront a noble, he'd do so using his military/political ties. If he wanted to send a bunch of peasants to their deaths, he'd whip up a mob.
An asylum then was probably worse than death. Forward thinking my ass, if Gaston was a good person he would have at bare minimum heard Maurice out and tried to help him.