Maybe "irrational" is not the right word here. The point I'm trying to make is that human preferences are not over world states.

When discussing preference rationality, arguments often consider only preferences over states of the world, while ignoring transitions between those states. For example, a person in San Francisco may drive to San Jose, then to Oakland and then back to San Francisco simply because they enjoy moving around. Cyclic transition between states is not necessarily something that needs fixing.