All 2AC offense relies on a concept of freedom and organizing determined by the limits of freedom granted by state power which recreates violence of biopoltical power Pisani 22 (“A justification of basic income beyond a theory of justice”, January 27th 2022, Pg. 745-746, Giacomo Pisani, https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/1404/version/2330) HSLA: RP
According to Van Parijs, the aim of UBI is to maximize the freedom of the individual. Indeed, justice means rendering equal effective freedom – rather than achieving equality in terms of the results of freedom. Seen in this light, Van Parijs’s theory of justice seems to mark a break from the parameters of Rawlsian neo-contractualism. The level of justice in a society does not depend on models of living upheld by those who constitute them but, rather, on the degree of freedom that institutions ensure for them. The greater the freedom, the higher the level of justice.
Freedom is, however, from this perspective, defined in a very specific sense: it existswithin the spaces granted by political institutions, which precede and favour – or deny – the realization of freedom. In short, subjective freedom exists within a domain determined by institutions, whose configuration exceeds the limits of freedom itself. Rather, the foundation of institutions is located within a principle – the maximization of freedom – hypostatized and imagined beyond the socio-political context in which the institutions themselves operate.
According to Van Parijs and Vanderborght (2017, p. 122), the legitimacy of UBI, therefore, derives from the fact that “institutions should be designed in such a way that the distribution of opportunities to which they lead can be regarded as fair and justifiable to all as free and equal persons”. UBI thus serves to distribute real freedom, possibilities and opportunities in the fairest way possible, in line with the conception of justice in that it consists of making freedom effective, rather than equal (Van Parijs and Vanderborght 2017, p. 180).
When Van Parijs and Vanderborght (2017) oppose the idea of a “good life” by embracing the cause of “unconditional” freedom, they actually have in mind a conception of freedom that goes as far as the limits established by the institutions in force. These limits do not originate from the freedom of subjects, but are based on an abstract principle of maximizing freedom.7