Taking a stance of being morally right in order to be viewed by your peers of being a good person, most people just use the moral high ground as an attempt to look good in an argument.
Person 1: "Michael J Fox can't use an Etch-A-Sketch because of Parkinson's."
Person 2: "Wow, that is so offensive."
Person 1: "Stop taking the moral high ground."
Person 2: "Wow, that is so offensive."
Person 1: "Stop taking the moral high ground."
by Arafat Sweets December 17, 2011
Get the Moral High Groundmug. Intense hysteria about a social or political problem that, instead of solving or reducing the problem, actually makes it worse.
The intense xenophobia behind the Trump Administration's efforts to stop migrants from Central America from entering the U.S. have actually increased the number of asylum seekers many times over from during the Obama Administration. It's an example of a "moral panic paradox" -- people are afraid the asylum laws will change so they need to immigrate now before that happens. Another moral panic paradox happens when gun-control advocates seek limits on the sale of assault rifles after a mass shooting. The result is increased sales of assault rifles because people feel they need to buy them now before the laws change.
by Mooseface April 14, 2019
Get the Moral panic paradoxmug. Doing interesting stuff that feels like you're making the world better in preference to doing the easy, boring, daily stuff that actually makes a difference.
You're so busy signing petitions on Avaaz that you forgot your mum's birthday. That's moral procrastination.
by Kevin Monk October 27, 2013
Get the moral procrastinationmug. The price of all your morals that you believe in.
Also the price that you can be bought with
Usually over 200 US dollars. This is for
Body whoring.
Also the price that you can be bought with
Usually over 200 US dollars. This is for
Body whoring.
by Fox Cruton April 8, 2009
Get the Moral bank accountmug. A pun on the crime of "impairing the morals of a minor" that defines the much more serious crime of statutory rape.
by jammyboil December 26, 2008
Get the impaling the morals of a minormug. A alternative version of miles on earth 42,this version turns out to be the prowler and follows his uncles footsteps after his father's death.
by RobinS1 June 11, 2023
Get the miles g moralesmug. A vigilante group of international protection applicants who tacitly reconstitute a religious landscape of Sharīaʿ code through innuendo and cultural opprobrium in Direct Provision, so as to create a hostile environment towards gender nonconforming and transgender international protection applicants.
The fear of becoming the target of morality policing in Direct Provision may induce others to shield themselves against the asylum morality police's threats, and to engage in self-protecting behaviour and attributions
by Canada (2022) October 13, 2022
Get the Asylum Morality Policemug.