>>327524
The question I began with is the question ethics aims yo address which is "what should I be trying to do?"
Then I went to the popular answers and through questioning of why they thought as they did and valued things as being important, I broke them all down to an individual pursuit of maximizing ones own personal subjective experience of gratification/joy, and minimizing ones suffering/misery, and what they are advocating for seems to be what they expect to be the best way of achieving that ratio for themselves.
And someone who is an egoist, amoralist, or realist might stop there, but I interrogated the experiences of pleasure and pain, happiness and sadness, to then go to evolution, seeing that the principles which produced such sensations and emotions in response to stimuli make for their own criteria of morality, and after that, I looked out further to ask what the endpoint that evolution seems to be heading toward, and then propose the acceleration toward that end as being the highest and most objective end that out actions may be judged by.
Because morality as a set of rules needs a goal to mark what we consider to be doing it right from. Without knowing what we are meant to be approaching, we cannot establish any ruleset to optimize that approach.