@Icon,
Icon, of course it can, basically,
"Be good and you'll be happy."
Huh, not like that
means anything, though. In my experience, ethics builds complexity on itself. The way I look at it, ethics starts with a moral/metaphysical kernel and builds corollary after corollary on top of itself...It might be possible that the absolute kernel of ethics is the old idiom "two sides of the same coin," that is, what we construe as duality is really
two different ways of looking at the same thing. I'll have to look into working on this idea some more, I have too many philosophical projects laying around in dusty corners of my brain, I'm so scatterbrained.