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There are two salient senses of something being non-arbitrary: something you prefer for a clear moral reason, and something understood as resulting from a clear physical cause. You are elaborating the sense irrelevant in this context: that happiness as a phenomenon appeared because of evolutionary factors (although explanatory power of this argument is debatable). But this is not at all a moral argument for preferring happiness, which is the context of Rain's confusion.
Since my simple and straightforward question regarding this statement was voted down, I'm assuming that people believe me to be some kind of troll or otherwise flippant in the current discussion.
I assure you that nothing is further from the truth, and that I want to know the answers to my questions, since I consider them very important. Rather than engagement, I find only frustration.
For a thread on strategies to thwart nihilism, "downvote it" does not seem like an optimal action.