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.].
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?