Without an independent normative premise bridging the causal claim to the justification, the argument commits the naturalistic fallacy Mill himself was accused of in Utilitarianism chapter four.

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Causal claim(the main subject being evaluated in the statement): A statement that says one thing directly causes or makes another thing happen, rather than just happening at the same time.
Mill(as the subject being discussed): John Stuart Mill was a 19th-century British philosopher who wrote influential ideas about liberty, happiness, and what makes a good life.
Utilitarianism(One of Sidgwick's three methods of ethics): The view that an individual self-evidently ought to aim at the maximum balance of happiness for all sentient beings present and future, whatever the cost to herself; also called Universalistic Hedonism
chapter four(as a historical reference): A specific section of Mill's book 'Utilitarianism' where critics argued he committed the naturalistic fallacy by deriving moral conclusions from factual observations.

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