No, proper morality prioritizes the reduction of suffering.

A common form of morality, utilitarianism, insists there be symmetry. Increases in happiness and reductions in suffering of equal weight are of equal importance. Negative utilitarianism advocates for the reduction of suffering to be prioritized, as the consequences of moral symmetry pose danger to society. Moral symmetry makes no sense when the two values are compared. The greatest happiness principle does not have the moral urgency that avoidable suffering has. Karl Popper stated that "human suffering makes a direct moral appeal for help", while the same can’t be said for increasing "the happiness of a man who is doing well anyway"^{<a class="ref-highlight" href="#reference-1">[1]</a>}. Although utilitarianism can help reduce suffering, weighing happiness the same “can be an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship”. Preventing suffering should be of the greatest moral importance. This approach echoes Buddhism’s Noble Truths; (universal) suffering cannot be compensated by happiness. Furthermore, Buddhism shares the same asymmetry as negative utilitarianism.^{<a class="ref-highlight" href="#reference-2">[2]</a>} Simply put, those who promised paradise on Earth through moral symmetry “never produced anything but a hell”.^{<a class="ref-highlight" href="#reference-1">[1]</a>} Proper morality is universal compassion, the prioritization of reducing suffering over what should be considered a private matter.