...only "things that happen". On a personal basis, this view can lead you to extreme nihilism. Where, for instance, it means little more if you murder your family, than if you don't. Camus' Stranger lets you live in the skin of one who has lost a lot of his subjective view. It is a creepy state.

On the other hand. For a society to survive, its citizens have to have values. A primary value is that its citizens should desire good things for the society. And that doing things that promote its long term well being are good. While doing things that harm its long term well being are bad.

We are stewards. Perhaps we are only stewards of that which promotes our own comfort (and perhaps more than that).