Most will say happiness is incalculable. Universally, aversion to suffering and death is enough...people can seek out their own happiness as long as this baseline is met. I believe that's negative utility.

Daily reminder: As long as religion respects 2 rules:

1) Respect reality.
2) Respect universal human rights.

...the rest of the non-religious world are reserving a space for you....

Sometimes I can agree with Adam. Universal Humanism, in one of its rule sets starts with individual survival:

1) Survive
2) Don't prevent another from surviving.
3) Help the less fortunate other.

See biography for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
https://civilsimian.com/Aleksandr-Solzhenitsyn

Read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's work:
https://civilsimian.com/user/223/content

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