I agree with most of your actual judgments here, although I’d be reluctant to draw lines as generally as you seem to have done.
On Donald Trump, I think he has bad values (engaging in many of the forms of harmful speech you describe here), but there have been instrumental arguments in support of him overall. I do suspect they’re mistaken, but I’m not sure we should suppress support for Trump, at least when good faith and impartial arguments are presented. I think the same could apply to legal immigration or other practical policies here. If someone is making an argument for or against a position in good faith and in an impartial manner (e.g. without outright discounting the welfare of would-be immigrants), then we might not want to suppress such speech.
Maybe the kind + true + necessary standard could be applied to find exceptions to classes of speech we normally find harmful.
Ethical nihilism could be considered similar, lacking in upside, and probably functioning similarly to selfishness for all practical purposes.
FWIW, ethical nihilism is compatible with any normative view, including impartial ones. Brian Tomasik has written against moral realism (see especially the last section):
I agree with most of your actual judgments here, although I’d be reluctant to draw lines as generally as you seem to have done.
On Donald Trump, I think he has bad values (engaging in many of the forms of harmful speech you describe here), but there have been instrumental arguments in support of him overall. I do suspect they’re mistaken, but I’m not sure we should suppress support for Trump, at least when good faith and impartial arguments are presented. I think the same could apply to legal immigration or other practical policies here. If someone is making an argument for or against a position in good faith and in an impartial manner (e.g. without outright discounting the welfare of would-be immigrants), then we might not want to suppress such speech.
Maybe the kind + true + necessary standard could be applied to find exceptions to classes of speech we normally find harmful.
FWIW, ethical nihilism is compatible with any normative view, including impartial ones. Brian Tomasik has written against moral realism (see especially the last section):
https://reducing-suffering.org/why-the-modesty-argument-for-moral-realism-fails/