 This is not to say that links within regimens are not without conflict: within the regimen of parliamentary democracy, within courts of law, within art criticism, there are always forms of “litigation” where one takes the rules within that genre and apply them to a particular case and arguments ensue. For example, to use the court example from which Lyotard borrows his term, in court one may use rules of evidence, case law, and so forth both in defending and prosecuting a certain defendant, all of which remains within the regimen of criminal law, and even if there are “damages”—one loses—one has at least been given one’s “rights” within that phrase regimen. This is not the case where there is a differend (différend):