ข้อจำกัดในสำนักกฎหมายธรรมชาติของ Lon L. Fuller กับการทดลองในมนุษย์ผ่านภาพยนตร์เรื่อง Poor Things

Chanikarn Setthavas; Nichapat Somudorn; Piratch Samitsombat; Warintira Thanesanont; Wattawadee Sathienpanich

Authors

Chanikarn Setthavas LL.B Candidates, Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University
Nichapat Somudorn LL.B Candidates, Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University
Piratch Samitsombat LL.B Candidates, Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University
Warintira Thanesanont LL.B Candidates, Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University
Wattawadee Sathienpanich LL.B Candidates, Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University

Keywords:

Poor Things, Scientific Experiments on Humans, Scientific Endeavors on Humans, Two Moralities, The Principle of Consent, The Principle of Collaboration

Abstract

“Poor Things” is a movie that portrays a reincarnation-like revival of a deceased woman who was subjected to scientific experiment by transplanting the brain of her unborn fetus into her own skull, leading to the profound incompatibility between her body and consciousness. Additionally, the film features other experiments in which the father conducted scientific endeavors on his child, as well as one character using it as a mean of vengeance.

Hence to analyze the scientific acts conducted in this film, this study employs Lon L. Fuller’s philosophy, a contemporary natural law theory, to answer the justification, legality through Two Moralities, Internal Morality, and The Principle of Consent as well as The Principle of Collaboration, and whether it is plausible to conduct such experiments in reality. This study aims to demonstrate that Lon L. Fuller’s ideology is inadequate to address the correlation of his doctrine when used to apply the scientific endeavors depicted in “Poor Things.”

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