2. Their attempt at transgression of the rules of debate is the ultimate conformity. Not only is this a very clear reason to vote negative on presumption, they reify the rules of debate, which turns the case.

If games had a finality, the only true player would be the cheater. Now, if a certain amount of prestige can be acquired by transgressing the law, there is no prestige in cheating or transgressing a rule. In truth, the cheater cannot transgress the rules since the game, not being a system of interdictions, does not have lines one can cross. One does not "trangress" a rule, one fails to observe it . And non-observance does not lead to a state of transgression ; it brings one back under the jurisdiction of the law. This is the case with the cheater, who denies or, even better, profanes the game's ceremonial conventions for economic reasons (or psychological reasons, if he cheats simply for the pleasure of winning), and thereby restores the laws of the real world. By introducing factors of an individual nature, he destroys the game's "duel" enchantment . If cheating was once punished by death and is still condemned strongly, it is because, as a crime, it resembles incest : cultural rules being broken to the sole profit of the "laws of nature." For the cheater, there is no longer anything at stake. He confuses the stakes with surplus-value. But the stakes are what enables one to play, and to turn them into the game's purpose is to abuse one's position of trust. In a similar manner, the rules establish the very possibility of playing, the space within which the sides confront each other. To treat the rules as ends (or as laws or truths) is to destroy both the game and its stakes. The rules have no autonomy, that quality which, according to Marx, characterizes commodities, both individually and in general, and is the sacrosanct value of the economic domain. The cheater too is autonomous: he establishes a law, his own law, against the arbitrary rituals of the rule - this is what disqualifies him. And he is free -this explains his downfall . Moreover, he is rather dreary, because he no longer exposes himself to the seduction of games, because he refuses the vertigo of seduction. By way of hypothesis, one might postulate that personal advantage is only an alibi: in reality he cheats in order to escape seduction ; he cheats because he is afraid of being seduced.