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
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Get the Moral High Ground mug.A place that most people take themselves to while talking about a situation where someone is subject to judgement based on their actions, to depict themselves as morally "right". People who take this ground are generally hypocrites with little understanding of why the person subject to judgement has committed said actions and they are everything what's wrong with the world.
Person 1: Oh he is 18 and dated someone of the age of 15. Pedophile!
Person 2: Women are attracted to men older than them. Sorry but it's true.
Person 1: (*Takes moral high ground*) No, he's immoral!! But I don't care if an 80 year old man marries someone of his daughter's age because it's okay and they are adults!
Person 2: Where's your morality now, bitch?
Person 2: Women are attracted to men older than them. Sorry but it's true.
Person 1: (*Takes moral high ground*) No, he's immoral!! But I don't care if an 80 year old man marries someone of his daughter's age because it's okay and they are adults!
Person 2: Where's your morality now, bitch?
by chillnonymous March 26, 2022
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