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the more laws the more offenders
the more laws the more offenders
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used to imply that as the number of laws and regulations increases, it becomes increasingly difficult to enforce them, which in turn creates more opportunities for people to unintentionally or intentionally violate them
Proverb
Exemplos
The city council believed that creating more laws would prevent littering, but it had the opposite effect, as the saying suggests ' the more laws the more offenders'.
