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Certainly most libertarians care about processes, or at most about results very similar to the processes, but this is a biased sample.
Most ideologies are about process and uninterested in evidence about consequences, but that doesn't mean that people who the term "libertarian" are ideologues. One cost of using the term is appearing to be an ideologue. For this reason, I refuse to reliquish the term "liberal" to the modern liberals. But I think that taw is poisoning the discourse, making it worse than it already is. It's a pretty common tactic to paint anyone outside the mainstream as an ideologue.
Indeed. "classical liberal" is the only way I use "liberal", though I'll only use the term at all if I'm actually discussing political philosophy.
Also, one's political philosophy is not necessarily isomorphic to one's ethics. The questions "Should I be a libertarian", "How should we arrange political institutions", and "How should I feel about other people telling me what to do" are all ethical questions, but their answers are far more complex than finding something that 'matches' one's ethics.