Asume the Best of Opposing Opinions

I let drop a suggestion a couple of posts back that could use a bit of explaining.  To quote, "Learn to separate ideas from people when evaluating them, and learn to integrate ideas with people when explaining them."

Although I very very briefly touched on the first part of that statement when I talked about processing other people's ideas, I've never qualified what I mean by the second part, so let's talk about that.