So often an idea is attached to a person, and separating them is not a simple task, for good reason. I totally agree that people (all people) have value, and ideas are 'just' ideas and in themselves have no value. The challenge however is that everything we truly value started with an idea! take the concept of peace for example it is an idea, we engage this idea by attributing behaviour to it, if a person displays what we think is peaceful we attribute them as being a peaceful person and the opposite with the idea of violence. I like the idea of valuing people separate from their ideas, I just don't think it is actually possible and is in fact naive... Our ideas drive our opinions, that drive our values, that drive our behaviours, that drive our attitudes, that drive our motivations, that drive our ideas and the cycle goes on.