It is possible to pass laws that control or place limits on people's behavior, but legislation cannot reform human nature. Laws cannot change what is in people's hearts and minds.

Both laws and morality, severed to regulate or direct human's behavior, have become prevailing concepts in the contemporary world. In recent days, there are many debates on whether laws can change human nature or not. As far as I am concerned, laws can not only govern people's behavior but also affect what is in people's hearts and minds. In our daily lives, various laws govern or control people's behavior to maintain a peaceful, orderly and …

…of a society, which sever to keep it together. Laws control or alter people's behavior to the external world, which also result in establishing the notion of right and evil in the human's interior minds and hearts. And in its turn, laws properly guide human's behavior as well. Those who consider laws could only put limits on people's behavior and cannot change people's hearts and minds do not really understand the true meaning of laws.