The laws can't do anything about making people better or worse, it takes them as they are and then it deals with them accordingly.

现今的法律做不到让人,变得更好或更坏,它让人们维持原样,并且循规蹈矩的处理事情

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it's like not so much about following these rules, these guidelines of what you're supposed to do.

这不是循规蹈矩，遵循你该做什么的指导。

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