In the “The Moral Instinct”, Steven Pinker’s main claim is that “The science of the moral sense can help us to see through the illusions that evolution and culture have saddled us with and to focus on goals we can share and defend”(2). Most of Pinker’s evidence is used to draw the attention of his audience. For example, Pinker presents the audience with a two dilemmas where one has to sacrifice one life to save five other lives; “Both dilemmas present you with the option of sacrificing one life to save five, and so, by the utilitarian standard of what would result in the greatest good for the greatest number, the two dilemmas are morally equivalent. But most people don’t see it that way”(4) Pinker illustrates the seemingly unexplainable