I thought this might be an appropriate question to ask given that it's World AIDS Day.
Hopefully we can actually have a mature conversation about this so that the mods don't close this thread

I'm keeping the gender pronouns neutral so that it's not gender/sexuality specific. Threads that assume everyone on ATRL is a gay guy seem to get closed really quickly.
Is it discriminatory to say no to someone who's HIV positive? Whether it's a relationship or just a casual encounter.
Because I'm not going to lie, I would. I don't even do anything that transmits HIV. But I still have an obsessive fear of it, kind of like Hannah (Lena Dunham) in 'Girls.'
In the lead up to World AIDS Day today, HIV support and LGBT groups have started a viral campaign (like the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge) to try and remove the negative stigma behind HIV/AIDS called #WeareALLclean where people take a photo of themselves showering and write the hashtag over it:
And it got me thinking, I'm one of those people who has a stigma against HIV.
So are you a horrible person if you rule out people who are HIV positive? Or are you just being super careful in protecting yourself from a disease that probably devastated them when they first found out they had it?
And do people have an ethical responsibility to inform sexual partners that they're HIV positive even if you're engaging in safe sex and/or non-penetrative activity? Because I think they do, and if they said they were, then I would say no

And I feel like an awful person because of it but it's just how I feel

Some people are afraid of spiders and heights, I'm afraid of HIV.