Should all views be respected?

I recently attended a presentation, and without going into detail about it, the speaker claimed that "all views should be respected, and looked at with an open mind" (during her talk she also claimed that six-year-olds should be taught sex-ed). The first thought that came to my mind when she made the claim that all views should be respected was "wow, this person is a f#@king nut". Then I got to thinking about how this may very well be the sign of a mental disorder. There are people out there that have the disease essessive empathetical thinking. I know, this sounds crazy (no pun intended), but empathy is the put oneself in another's shoes. But with people like this, they engage in so much empathetical thinking, they lose their sense of self, and sense of morality. In her talk she made it seem as if morality was not an important thing at all, and those that had morally-charged opinions were automatically discounted (which struck me as odd).

Politically I consider myself to be a moderate (as sane individuals are). I see super conservatives as being too driven by fear and hatred, and liberals as being mentally ill (again, they have lost their sense of self by engaging in too much empathetical thinking, which has caused them to lose their sense of morality as well). In other words, people at the extreme ends of the political spectrum are f#@king crazy, and we need to stop having these whack-jobs forming the dialogue in political discusions.  

I better slow down and get back on topic, but ranting on here is fun :)

The idea that all ideas should be respected and absorbed with an open mind is like claiming that all foods should be respected and eaten (which is the american way I suppose). The moral of the story here is: if some dumbass aging hippie tells you some stupid ass ideas, you do not, and should not consider those ideas with an "open mind". 

Being close-minded is NOT a bad thing, if you are too open-minded your brain will turn into liquid shit causing you to lose your sense of self along with creating a chaotic worldview to boot.

Of course, we are close-minded to some ideas. For example, as atheists (assuming most of the readers of this are atheists), we are close-minded to religious ideas (for good reason). We are educated to be close-minded to ideas that "racist" (again, for good reason, but I don't see any liberal claiming to be open-minded when it comes to that subject). Often when someone tells you to be open-minded, they just want you to believe an idea they and  you know is stupid. 9 times out of 10 they are telling you to remove the filter and absorb shit information.