I think it's terribly important to keep the distinction in the back of our minds even if we find it, in practical terms, well nigh impossible and possibly even in many contexts a waste of time to be perpetually enforcing it.

你们一定要牢记这个区别,这实在是太重要了，尽管有时我们发现在一些的文本中这种区别很微小,看上去不值得花时间去研究或使用。

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If they acted with a kind of mechanical necessity or even geometric necessity, they could not possibly be moral laws in that way.

如果这些法则有机械上,或者几何上的必须性的话，它们就不能被称作道德法则。

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