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Two things surprise me.
First while 73.4% of responders are consequentialists and only 9% deontologists, at the same time 45% of responders are libertarians. While labels like that are vague, libertarianism is in most versions highly deontologist ideology, and cares about processes and not results as such.
The other thing was 33.3% of "single and looking" (plus 24.2% of "single and not looking" consists of some mix of "single and not interested" and "single, tried but given up"). There are some well known seduction techniques based on adjusting for biases people have because we're evolutionarily adapted to a different environment. I'd guess most responders compartmentalize their rationality and do not apply rational thinking to their personal lifes. More compartment-busting posts please?
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.