The moral high ground, in ethical or political parlance, refers to the status of being respected for remaining moral, and adhering to and upholding a universally recognized standard of justice or goodness. In derogatory context, the term is often used to metaphorically describe a position of self-righteousness.
"Parties seeking the moral high ground simply refuse to act in ways which are not viewed as legitimate and morally defensible."[1]
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The moralhighground, in ethical or political parlance, refers to the status of being respected for remaining moral, and adhering to and upholding a universally...
two systems of morality are compared Moralhighground Self-righteousness, when proclamations and posturing of moral superiority become a negative personal...
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the interests of well-funded businesses. ... [Baptists] take the moralhighground, while the bootleggers persuade the politicians quietly, behind closed...
Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger wrote that "the attempt to give the moralhighground back to McDreamy was bad. Dude, whatever happened in New York ceased...
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First Opium War. He is praised for his constant position on the "moralhighground" in his fight, but he is also blamed for a rigid approach which failed...
applaud these attacks; however, he cautioned Israel not to “lose the moralhighground” in the 2023 Israel-Hamas war. Maher expressed disappointment with...
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"appropriateness" or "rightness". Moral philosophy includes meta-ethics, which studies abstract issues such as moral ontology and moral epistemology, and normative...
interaction" and how they succeeded in retaining "a position on the moralhighground while bloody mayhem rages around their feet". Some critics found the...
lies, and anything else) to beat them, INC always maintained its moralhighground. The worst INC ever did was to "leak" a new game to The Humble Guys...
privileged Western point of view. But I don't feel like I have such a moralhighground that I can walk around lecturing people in developing nations on how...
amounts of money to do it, but they were very good at keeping the moralhighground and saying no. But I think if Dad hadn't died, it would have happened...
role only in the first of these. He is ambitious and sure of his own moralhighground, qualities which do not endear him to Rebus. He takes Siobhan Clarke...