10 Toughest Dilemmas In Horror Movies

2. Who Would You Spare On The Shotgun Carousel? - Saw VI

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The sixth Saw film might well tout the most intriguingly grim dilemma of the lot.

The final test of health insurance executive William Easton (Peter Outerbridge) sees his six subordinate employees chained to a carousel that periodically stops to blast them in the face with a shotgun, one-by-one.

William is able to save two of the six participants, albeit at the cost of stabbing himself in the hand.

And so, he's forced to quickly decide which of his six lackeys are worth saving over the rest - a fitting test for a man who made a career out of deciding who lives and dies.

But how do you decide who to save? The six employees of course try to convince William with their own reasoning - they're the healthiest, have children, need to care for their sick parents, are pregnant, or can bribe him.

Do you approach the test from a moral perspective and consider whose deaths would cause the most emotional hurt? Or do you simply save the first two participants you're able to, leaving the remaining four to be killed, ensuring you've saved two lives without making any moral judgments?

Or there's another option - doing nothing at all.

While this would mean that all six people die, you'd have refused to "play God," and considering the associates were all paid to find discrepancies in claimants' policies to deny their coverage, causing their deaths, perhaps they don't even deserve to live.

Ultimately William decides to spare the mother and the middle-aged woman with sick parents, but no matter what decision you make, the outcome is extremely traumatising.

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