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Well, hang on. pjeby probably would benefit from finding a less judgmental vocab, but he has a valid point: not every human action should be counted as evidence of a human value for the usual result of that action, because some humans have systematically erroneous beliefs about the way actions lead to results.
You may be hitting pjeby with a second-order ad hominem attack! Just because he uses vocab that's often used to delegitimize other people doesn't mean his arguments should be deligitimized.
But people "who compulsively seek nonconsensual domination of others" and "actually positively values bossing people around just to watch them jump" exist and are quite successful, arguably as a result of these values at other things which most humans value (sex, status, wealth). Pjeby is describing traits that are common in politicians, managers and high school teachers.
And I'm asserting that the subset of those individuals who are doing it for a direct feeling-reward (as opposed to strategic reasons) are what we would call sociopaths or psychopaths. The remainder (other than Machiavellian strategists and 'opaths) are actually doing it to avoid negative feeling-hits, rather than to obtain positive ones.