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Maybe you can have preferences about your future values, but most moral change is very slow. Do societies have coherent preferences about their future values?
Before you say yes, consider the massive moral differences between us and some ancient ancestor society. Would Socrates really have predicted universal suffrage?
Plato imagined women voting.
Francis Godwin in the 1620s imagined traveling to the moon. Imagining progress is not the same as implementing it.