sdandrea1
I'm certainly guilty of having a tiered scale:
There are those with perspectives I value, those I respect, those I simply agree with, those I acknowledge, those I tolerate, and those I want nothing the $%#& to do with.
And, the older I get, the larger the membership to that last group has become (maybe 5%?). I sleep better when I can just quickly tuck the person into that last group instead of expending valuable one-sided energy trying to fit them into one of the other groups. My 5% would probably be even higher, but there's also subset of wackjobs who are otherwise kind/harmless.