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Eventually there must be laws to regulate the professional practice of Pleneurethics. Such laws would define the scope of Pleneurethics and would set requirements for licensing. It would be enacted into law by the legislatures of the several states and various nations of the world.

The Pleneurethical law will be patterned after the listing of postulates in Volume VI and various other passages in it and the other five Pleneurethical volumes written and published by the author.

A legal definition for Pleneurethics is not attempted at this time. This will be best accomplished when the time comes.

Briefly, Pleneurethics is a way of ethical life and a system of therapeutics based on the notion that chronic dissatisfactions are caused by patterns of disorder in the central neural system. Therapy is aimed at restoration and preservation of central neurological capability and competence.

Laws offer a guide to action. The guide may be wise or unwise. It may have at one time been appropriate, but became antiquated as time and circumstances passed it by.

Any law may be broken. Some easier than others. A breach of law is seldom undertaken by wise men. Even those laws which no longer serve as effective guides to proper action should not be broken with impunity. Poor laws should be legally repealed, but until repealed they should be obeyed.

Fools break laws easily just for the fun of it. But such fun puts indelible marks on man, and with too many marks he becomes discolored
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and disadvantaged. The price he eventually pays for his arbitrary escapades may be severe.

For the breaking of any law, as long as it is law, carries the onus of having disregarded a most respectable civilized institution. Laws are the mark of a progressive civilization. Obedience to the law, even when seeking its change, is the mark of mature citizenship.

Those who are charged with the preservation of the law assume dual duty. Not only are they obliged to enforce the law impartially, they are also obligated to keep the law current. Currency of law requires enactment of new law, and the abolition of old law no longer germane to the progress of civilization.

The failure to remove outmoded law from the books desecrates the institution of law and weakens it in the eyes of men. Men who strive to foster civilization by upholding its written edicts are dismayed by statutes filled with useless, harmful, or ridiculous laws. And such laws give comfort to the hooligan, because they make the entire system nebulous and unmanageable.

Pleneurethics is founded in law—a guiding philosophical principle. This principle of Pleneurethics is partly written, but the remainder can never be codified.

Details of Pleneurethical law must come from the majesty of the ethical mind of an enlightened humankind. Those intricate judgments that must be made in split seconds in the give and take of daily life could never be formulated even by armies of scribes.