The phrase 'morally higher' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used as an adjective meaning displaying ethical behavior that is considered to be superior or superior moral standing. For example, "He looked up to her as an example of someone with a morally higher standing."
"It's possible he thinks of me as a morally high-handed little snotnosed jerk who tried to tell him what to do with his money," Schur reflected.
Both exalted the creation of "children and art" as a refutation of the nihilism of "Sweeney Todd" and as a self-conscious, morally high-minded investment in humanity.
"When you see other people doing things, you think they are doing it for selfish reasons, but when you do it, you feel you are on morally high ground," said James E. Katz, the director of the Center for Mobile Communication Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and the author of "Connections: Social and Cultural Studies of the Telephone in American Life" (Transaction Publishers, 1999).
Joining "Election" in the annals of movies about morally compromised high school teachers, Clay Liford's "Wuss" conjures an agreeably bleak miasma of comic anomie and suburban self-loathing.
"I know next to nothing about Iran, but the little I do know tells me they are far higher morally than this financially failing filth farm".
Sometimes it may even be necessary to remove senior executives, restructure the board, or declare some executives or board members morally unfit for higher office.
It winces with liberal self-chastisement: Redford is surely smart enough to realize, as the professor turns his ire on those who merely chatter while Rome burns, that his movie is itself no better, or more morally effective, than high-concept Hollywood fiddling.
(Does "married men and women having an affair" include people in open relationships?) Still, even accounting for the simplistic framing, the extremely high "Morally wrong/acceptable" ratio there suggests to me that judgmental puritanism is in pretty good shape in America these days.
It is morally distressing, with a high opportunity cost and, consequently, a high human cost: Genuinely decent, loving people who seek to serve Goodness are having their precious empathy and compassion channeled into activities that range from exploitative to merely inefficient or insensitive.
I'm done with higher education being morally culpable for putting people in thousands of dollars in debt for the rest of their lives.
