Is 'Perfect' the word?

Yes. Yes it is.

Well, maybe another word would be better. Maybe 'optimal'.

Yesterday I wrote in defense of, essentially, preference engineering. It claimed that preferences and dispreferences are not immune to ethical evaluation and criticism. The jist of the argument was that there is no reason to think that what one prefers and disprefers are irrelevant to how well one's life is lived, that having strong dispreferences was, in many cases, anathema to a well-lived life. Even though some preferences are bad, and some dispreferences good, in general I think that there is a strong asymmetry. The more open one is to possible experience, the better one's life goes, and the fewer things one is actively disprefering, the more open one is to possible experience.

But yesterday i titled my post 'Perfect Preferences' or something to that effect. And I tagged the post 'Becoming Perfect'. Am I just being overblown in my speech?

The perfect preferences

Have you ever thought to yourself, "I don't like sushi, but everyone else does. Moreover, everyone else loves sushi. Maybe I should like sushi..." or "I'm not a morning person. But Sam is a morning person, and he seems so happy all of the time, and he's so much more productive than I am. Maybe I my life would be better if I were a morning person." or "I can't stand classical music. I like hip hop (especially Criss Cross!). But my parents like classical music. In fact, a great many of the people I respect like classical music. Maybe there's something laudable about liking classical music and something censurable about disliking classical music."