The purpose of this article is to show the limited scope of the concept of misrecognition used by Axel Honneth. With this concept the author pretends to give account of the moral implications of human vulnerability. In his work Honneth establishes a strong dependency between the concept of misrecognition on a positive moral instance. This dependency has as a consequence the difficulty of understanding the significance of some forms of moral injury that are not reducible to misrecognition. To illustrate this, I intend to describe a painful historical situation characteristic of the encounter between the Spaniards and the Indians in the first period of the conquest of el Nuevo Reino de Granada.