A high position in the sense of having an important job, often means that such individual's life is somehow restricted. The job determines a lot about it and so it does not have so much freedom like ordinary people have. So influencies from polityicians, priests, and other people with an important job, maybe restrict one's possibilities to choose freely in one's life what to do and what to be like, even if one aims at being fit into the society.
A high position in the sense of being moral and skilled isn't such a job. It gives lesspossibilities to affect large scale things but leaves one's rights as a citizen untouched. If some such big things needs safeguarding, such is the right of all who behave morally in it and in skilled enough ways.
