What is preferable?

I prefer Yasmin Ahmad.
I prefer toilet trained cats.
I prefer silence.
I prefer BBC to CNN.
I prefer myself to liking classes to myself loving school.
I prefer keeping a pen and notebook on hand, just in case.
I prefer the colour purple, yellow, and green.
I prefer to maintain that belief is to solve everything.
I prefer excuses.
I prefer to come late.
I prefer talking to patients to talking to doctors.
I prefer the old cameras.
I prefer the absurdity of digging my nose in public to the absurdity of not digging my nose in public.
I prefer, where nature's concerned, nonspecific No Plastic Bags Day that can be celebrated everyday.
I prefer politicians who promise nothing.
I prefer simple innovation to no innovation at all.
I prefer the earth cooling to the earth warming.
I prefer traveling to conquered to conquering countries.
I prefer having some bookings.
I prefer the war of chaos to the war of order.
I prefer Farish Noor's writings to the newspaper's front pages.
I prefer streets without rubbish.
I prefer shops without promoters.
I prefer bulletproof glasses.
I prefer many things I've left unsaid.
I prefer writing to drawing.
I prefer the time during examination to the time of stars.
I prefer to talk with someone intelligent.
I prefer to ask how much longer and when.
I prefer keeping in mind even the possibility that no one gets out alive.