So, since it boils down to practical judgement and not any great violation of an important, sensible, and humanistic code of ethic, would you go befriend a cannibal? Go over his house for dinner? Double date? Or is the stigma against such a person and/or the act, assuming no one gets hurt, still justified on some ground?
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza