We need to confront hate before it loses its human connection, because when it does, all of our moral hand-wringing and good and decent intentions collapse in a pool of irrelevancy.
It might also diverge from familiar moral teachings, handed down through religious and cultural traditions.
In any case, they genuinely think they have the moral upper hand.
She looks like a flying doughnut - a jolly, slapstick figure - but has the moral upper hand, all the same.
As for the S.E.C., it would be left with the moral upper hand, a market free of Chinese accounting risk – and thousands of angry U.S. investors.
"If there's one thing a girl with a bad boyfriend has," Dombek notes, "it's the moral upper hand in the religion of mental health".
The fascist, it appears, lurks just beneath everyone's skin, though women, eternal sphinxes in Mr. Pinter's portrayal, at least marginally have the moral upper hand.
The Iraqi leader made no reference to the attack, but showed characteristic flourish in claiming the moral upper hand in the conflict.
If proved true, however, the killings could significantly tarnish Mr. Ouattara's reputation overseas, where he is widely viewed as holding the moral upper hand in the standoff with Mr. Gbagbo.
Littlefinger, for a time the most trustworthy ally Sansa had, had handed her off from one group of sadists to another, and she let him have it, calmly, intelligently, and with the moral upper hand.
