And, to be fair, you were originally the one disputing definitions. In my post I used the standard definition of 'preference', which you decided was 'wrong', [...] rather than accepting the implied (normal!) definition I had obviously used.

You are right, I was wrong to claim authority over the meaning of the term as you used it. The actual problem was in you misinterpreting its use in andreas's comment, where it was used in my sense:

We do want our current preferences to be made reality (because that's what the term preference describes)