ABSTRACT
This chapter examines principles of basic morality. These principles are simple or uncontroversial, but because of the fundamental nature of the normatively relevant features they purport to safeguard or serve: namely, liberty, health, autonomy, security, non-subordination, the absence of oppression, and human dignity. These principles are moral in the sense that they go to the heart of how at a rudimentary level human beings ought to be treated and to how such expectations bear upon the narrow warrant of legalistic constraints on hate speech. The chapter attempts some small way to rectify that potential shortcoming. The chapter explores possible instantiations of the Principle of Non-Subordination, that legalistic constraints on uses of hate speech are warranted if they serve to protect individuals from acts of expression that also constitute acts of subordination. The intermezzo theory explain the sense in which some uses of hate speech infringe human dignity and the sense in which certain clusters of laws/regulations/codes protect human dignity.
