Christopher Shays Beyond Quotations

Tom's problem isn't just this. It's continual acts that border and go sometimes beyond the ethical edge, ... They may not be illegal, but he's always pushing that ethical edge to the limit.

Tom's problem ... is continual acts that border and go sometimes beyond the ethical edge,

I think he's hurting the party because he's just gone too far too often, ... He doesn't know the bounds of what's appropriate. He goes well beyond them. It's not that he may have broken the law, it's that he has continually pushed what is proper conduct to the very edge, and it's the accumulation of this.