In honour of your nickname: > How does the "frothing at the mouth" insult apply to somebody making a questionable claim to a moral high ground? Well, those cl

In honour of your nickname: > How does the "frothing at the mouth" insult apply to somebody making a questionable claim to a moral high ground? Well, those claiming moral high ground usually show themselves indignant about something: because "morality" is a gut feeling about things being right or wrong, and when you want to show that your gut feeling is that something is really really wrong, you show yourself indignant, which means angry, and therefore "frothing at the mouth". > What does it mean to claim the moral high ground against somebody who has potentially used Nazi imagery by accident? I guess it means to show that your moral feelings are stronger than the other person's: so you show yourself indignant. You don't stop to consider that maybe you're seeing something that isn't even there, that if there is a mistake it's yours, and that a left-turning swastika would not be nazi imagery even if it was there, strictly speaking. > Doesn't the "by accident" part make that inapplicable? No, the "by accident" presupposes the existence of the nazi reference, which is by itself very dubious, except of course in the eye of the beholder. "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell." :)