On Moral Authorities

[Ignorant]

I can think of plenty of things that lead away from human happiness that -aren't- bad things.  The trumpsters would have been heartbroken had their boy lost (and they're just so very happy that he won). 

Remember when I wrote this?:

"just for the sake of clarity: Happiness often and mostly includes pleasure, but happiness cannot be reduced to MERE pleasure. That is the exact error upon which hedonism rests and fails. E.g. Heroin causes temporary pleasure, but a life spent in pursuit and use of heroin seldom causes "happiness"."

I am telling you that we mean different things by the word "happiness". The sort of life to which, as you call them, truly "helpful" things lead is what I call a "happy life". The "trumpsters" are wrong about helpful things, which is, in my way of putting it, wrong about happy things.

since you're asking me to compare to a subject which I do not use as a foundation of morality

Look, you're already speaking to me as if I were a child, so why not keep up that theme and explain to me what it means to help someone or to harm someone, and why helping is good and hurting is bad. I know you can do it. And what's more, I will even ADMIT IT if it is fundamentally different than a morality based on doing good and avoiding evil for the sake of human happiness.