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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.
Oh, hey, we have data!
According to crosstabs, of our fifteen deontologists, four were libertarian, four were liberal, four were socialist, two were conservative, and one didn't list political views. That means deontologists were slightly less likely to be libertarian than the average person.
(deontologists were much more likely to be conservative than the average person, but I can't draw too many conclusions from that because there was such a small sample size of deontologists and conservatives.)
I admit I didn't expect that result. I think it's because the really, really loud obnoxious libertarians like Objectivists are all deontologists. But I don't think this site has a lot of those. I would be curious what would happen if we polled the reader based of lewrockwell.com
[EDIT: Also, an overwhelming majority of those who said they didn't believe in morality were libertarians. Wonder what that means.].
Perhaps they are contractarians, which they think isn't about "morality" per se?