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Like, it is usually meant to be dignified, morally superior.

Which in this case would be probably meeting her and discussing it through, honestly and openly. And possibly ending it civilly and politely, being unable to trust the person at the current state of mind (and that's quite early in the relationship).

But I can't speak for the people that used the term.
 
As far as I understand, the two terms high road and high ground here are used rather differently.

Take the high road, as far as I understand, means what @JudasMyGuide wrote here. Taking (or getting) the high ground refers, I think, to being the one to end it, rather than waiting for her to do it. Or, to use another phrase much used these days ...take back control!
 
Isn't high ground also used in the way high road is? Like "moral high ground"?

But yeah, here it's mostly about the Star Wars meme.

In which case I'd recommend using the Backstroke of the West version

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so you can dump her and baffle her at the same time.
 
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Well, yes. I was more thinking that high ground is a more generic term than high road. But one thing is for sure, if you don't take the high road it's harder to claim that you have the moral high ground :D

Semantics, pedantics.
 
Taking the high road is an active way of moral behaviour. Holding the high ground is a passive way of already possessing moral superiority.

I take the high road if I refuse to cooperate with Nazis. I have the high ground if Nazis wouldn't cooperate with me in the first place.
 
Not necessarily. If I'm Jewish or Black, I have the high ground because Nazis wouldn't cooperate with me, but I didn't exactly do anything to get there.
 
I wouldn't say that Benjamin Netanyahu or Robert Mugabe have spent much time on the moral high ground, regardless of whether or not the Nazis would co-operate with them.
 
You're twisting my argument. If I'm a Jew in Nazi Germany and get sent to a death camp, I have the high ground. Not because I took the high road to get there, but because the Nazis chose to descend beneath me. I didn't do anything and didn't have a choice. The Nazis had the choice and chose to take the morally inferior route.
 
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You're twisting my argument. If I'm a Jew in Nazi Germany and get sent to a death camp, I have the high ground. Not because I took the high road to get there, but because the Nazis chose to descend beneath me. I didn't do anything and didn't have a choice. The Nazis had the choice and chose to take the morally inferior route.
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Isn't this what "turning the other cheek" allegory is all about?
 
That's where I'd say "go ask a Theologist", but I just realised that I sat in more classes in Catholic Theology than in some subjects I actually have a degree for. And I'm a baptised Protestant Agnostic.
 
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That's where I'd say "go ask a Theologist", but I just realised that I sat in more classes in Catholic Theology than in some subjects I actually have a degree for. And I'm a baptised Protestant Agnostic.
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Orthodox Shia Seventh-dayer myself.
 
There actually is such a thing as an Orthodox Sevener Shi'ite, so be careful.

Especially because they are colloquially known as...

Assassins.
 
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