I'm not sure how good and evil are considered flimsy concepts when every culture in every nation has some very strongly shared notions of what consitutues one or the other. Rape is considered evil by all religions on planet earth. Even though some people in the name of some religious traditions engage in it as a form of punishment, it doesn't change the fact that it is universally accepted to be an act of evil.
There is a universal revulsion at the thought of it. Every society has laws against it.
That some people believe purposefully taking innocent life is only subjectively evil, doesn't make it so. I mean in some sense there is nothing that isn't subjective. There is an organization called the Flat Earth Society that actually holds that the earth is flat. So is the earth's roundness merely a subjective interpretation just because some people claim it to be so?
Something like 10% of the population believes Elvis is alive. That doesn't mean that his death is an unsubstantiated or unsubstantiatable opinion, a subjective interpretation.
To say that all evil is subjective is to twist the concept of subjectivity so as to bend truth into a puff of nothingness and reality into a kaleidoscopic lens of ever-changing colors.
Different opinions about the height of the Statue of Liberty doesn't make it a sliding scale of possible heights. It is as tall as it is, others' opinions about it notwithstanding.
Anyway, I'm tired and am thinking slowly now. Just throwing out some food for thought.
As for happiness, I agree with andersonx.
Happiness is a state of being. It is a life of meaning and purpose and decency. It requires that at the end of the day, you can look in the mirror and like the person staring back at you. That's tough when you engage in acts of depravity.
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