"Good person": Self-proclamation by modern-day moralists

Something I've noticed a lot more recently is people unilaterally declaring themselves to be good. They make no nuance about it or ever proclaim that they themselves have any issues or problems. They then proceed to name somebody else who they say is not a good person. I guess I just find this interesting because they seem to have made this absolute moral standard for other people and they compare them to themselves to decide if that person is good or bad.

I was listening to a talk by a priest named Fr Chad Ripperger recently in which he said something along the lines of if he was speaking to a room full of people he could say that nobody there was a saint and that nobody would object to that because the people who are far from being saints and are actually immoral in many ways would not consider themselves to be saints. And at the same time people who are in fact close to being saints would also not consider themselves to be saints because they know how sinful they have been in the past and how much they rely on God for their sanctity.

However this doesn't seem to be the case for how a lot of non-religious people speak nowadays.

A major example of this is what has been deemed "cancel culture". People will dredge up 20-year-old videos of somebody who said something a certain way, misspoke, or what have you and they will be lambasted and perhaps even lose their career because what they said is deemed to be inappropriate by today's standards. The people exposing them will then go on to declare that this is not a good person and that this person deserves everything they get. It doesn't matter if it was a minor foible or small error in judgment even for that time. The mob will be relentless and unforgiving of this person.

I just wonder where the people making these declarations have such gall to be able to declare themselves perfect while pointing out even the most minor flaws of other people.

Some people may listen to what I'm saying and respond by asking isn't that what religious people do all the time? In my experience, truly religious and spiritual people generally are not overly judgmental and they also acknowledge their own sins and failings. I rarely meet any religious person who declares themselves to be a good person as such and that they do everything perfectly. They admit their need for God's grace.

One last thing is the irony of some of these people being self-appointed moral authorities. You will often see this in some of the most wicked people around. People who commit all forms of evil. Yet they will not hesitate to pronounce their innocence while condemning others. Often they criticize people for things which are actually morally good.

Bottom line is pay no attention to modern-day moralists. They don't seem to have any knowledge or understanding of good morality no matter how much they puff our their chests.