Biotransformação ou biomelhoramento: entre fatos e valores

The generic idea that the human should enhance seems uncontroversial. However, there is a great controversy about the meaning of enhance and the means that should be used. The possibilities of enhance humans through the use of biotechnology are a central theme of the current bioethical debate. Human Enhancement is the concept used to translate the idea that a biotransformation would generate a bioenhancement. In this article, we present a proposal for a factual-elementary framework of the generic concept of human enhancement, in order to highlight the differences between a normative terminology (bioenhancement) and a descriptive terminology (biotransformation). Then, we contest the radical polarization (pro versus against) that creates a harmful bias in the debate, arguing that what is at issue is a decision making based on non-universal value judgments