the high ground

the high ground
: a position in which you have an advantage over others

They claim to have the (intellectual) high ground in this debate. [=they claim to have the (intellectually) better position]

— often used in the phase the moral high ground

These countries lost/ceded the moral high ground [=they stopped being morally better than others; they lost the right to consider themselves morally better than others] when they entered the war to protect their economic interests.

She believes she has the moral high ground on this issue. [=she believes her position on the issue is the morally correct one]

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