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Revista iberoamericana de ciencia tecnología y sociedad
versión On-line ISSN 1850-0013
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BELLO REGUERA, Gabriel. Moral risk: the limits of human life and the democratization of ethics. Rev. iberoam. cienc. tecnol. soc. [online]. 2012, vol.7, n.20, pp.129-143. ISSN 1850-0013.
Moral risk occurs when one is exposed to an action, practice or behaviour that turns out poorly in the moral (and not technical) sense. This work reflects on the moral risk produced by new biotechnological practices. Bioethics (or ethics of human life) deals with the moral dilemmas produced by the technical capacity of new technologies. To do so, the debate between pre-scientific biology and scientific biology must be properly framed, searching for democratic ways to mediate the controversies that arise. From the analysis of the performative power or force of language, it can be concluded that the performed is the human identity as a moral one, differentiated from its biological or genetic identity. In another words: humanity as its own moral norm, as an ethical redline which serves as a criterion to evaluate -through positive or negative value judgements- the actions, practices, conducts, institutions and people who affect the humanity of other human beings and, in this way, choose between them. As these evaluations are charged with political meaning and effectiveness, the performative power of language can be characterised not only as bioethical (or bioethics), but also as biopolitical (or biopolitics).
Palabras clave : Moral risk; Life; Democratization; Bioethics.