I also want Limbaugh to suffer kidney failure. The fact is, his views make the world less safe for people like Wanda Sykes, less safe for me, and less pleasent. He does this primarily by expressing his views, which is entirely legal, and I'd be the first to support his right to do so; doesn't mean I have to want him alive and kicking.

In the USA we're taught to place a premium and respecting other's views. While I respect this view, "respecting other's views" doesn't really afford "views" any respect as all, as it assumes that views are benign things that can all coexist peacefully. Two seconds of reflection will tell us that this couldn't be further from the truth.

Take Miss California -- I'm supposed to respect her view on gay marriage, even though it actually diminishes the quality of actual gay peoples' lives. Accordingly, I treat her views as I do utterances of the 'N' word.  While it's unfair to hate a person based on a single belief -- I don't hate Carrie Prejean -- I'm not obligated to engage in a civilized debate with her, even if that's the forum she'd prefer to engage me with.

Same goes for anyone in a suit and tie who, using his or her ivy league vocabulary, advocates torture, racism, or flat-out killing people. Rather, the decorum exhibited by these slimeballs only makes their suggestions that much more insidious -- we know what to do with a crazed killer; we have a much harder time with sociopaths.  

The fact is, the views people express strongly affect the world everyone has to live in. I once took an American Indian philosophy class at Berkeley. The prof, an Indian herself, wanted to us to incorporate Indian philosophy into our daily lives. This was feasible to a small extent, and I found much of the philosophy I learned positively inspiring, but most core beliefs of the American Indian people require substantial amounts of land to have any meaning -- about a continent's worth. To appropriate Indian culture in any significant way would be to wage war on those who prefer the contemporary American lifestyle. Stating that you "respect" the Ameerican Indian way of life is to afford him approximately zero dignity. What my professor should have been hoping for was kidney failure on a massive scale.