Depends on the meat. I like poultry and pork cooked more thoroughly than beef and seafood.
Well chicken, yeah, no one wants rare chicken. But Bushie is talking about red AMERICAN meat. No one ever asks how you want your chicken cooked, and if they do, God help you.
My mind is recalling the warning at the bottom of most restaurant menus:
* Consuming undercooked meats, eggs, and poultry increases the risk of food borne illness.
That's true. But man, there is nothing worse than a well done piece of steak, unless you enjoy gnawing on shoe leather for a few hours. I can't imagine anyone wanting to eat red meat well done. It just boggles my mind, unless their parents raised them poorly and always fed them well done meat, and if that is the case, it is time to break free and try new things.
I prefer to make sure my steaks aren't still mooing when I eat it! I don't like seeing a lot of pink or red in my steak. I don't like completely well done as a lot of times it comes out burnt. I prefer medium well. I can do medium, but I will send back anything that is cooked less than that, and I prefer medium well.
Oh, heavens! Have you ever had a steak cooked properly? My best friend's parents had always cooked their meat well done, but last time we went to Peter Lugar's, I convinced him to try it medium rare, and his mind was changed forever and ever.
I was much like your friend, and someone convinced me to try medium rare (that would be more than a decade ago now), and like your friend, I've never looked back.
Polnut - I don't think I've had steak tartare, although I do love carpaccio. Next time you're down this way, we might just need to do my favourite Japanese barbecue restaurant (pending timing and all the normal things).
I want to try a blue steak sometime.
Well done, but only because deep fried wasn't an option. 
In all honesty though, I ain't much of a steak person. Just tastes like leather to me.
Because you've clearly never had a good one... nor had it cooked well.
I think the words are "cause" and "effect"
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