I misread this as "It is possible to respect onions without valuing them"

I was thinking "onions" what's so special about onions.

Opinions!

Right... if you have an open mind enough to accept you might be wrong then yes possible.

When something is obviously garbage, then difficult to give it value.

If you can understand why the person has formulated his garbage opinion, then maybe. So you can give the person value, even though the opinion is garbage. But you cant value the opinion if its garbage.

Most of the time there are always elements of crap that has some sort of value, even if its 1% of value and 99% crap.

So I suppose even getting 1% value from a garbage opinion is still value. 🤷