It’s a good question but one I cannot answer. What I think I would do and what I would actually do may be two very different things. Just look at Milgram’s obedience experiment or Zimbardo’s prison experiment…those participants probably thought they would never do the things they ended up doing. We don’t truly know ourselves until we are pushed.

That being said, my first thought was that they don’t want survivors so I would do whatever I could to ensure a quick death (having my brain explode is better than someone stabbing me 27 times). But who knows. Hopefully we never find out.

Fair. It definitely is an interesting conversation, and it’s really the only reason I posted it here. Because there isn’t a white answer or a black answer – but something else.

First it’s a movie. So, the moral question is, generally speaking, thrown out the window. So my even asking the question was just a Philosophy 101 move. When we watch Die Hard, we don’t think… morally… would we kill Hans Gruber at the end? Really? It just isn’t a thing. Belko though, is, 100%, beginning to end, a Philosophy 101 question dressed up as a movie. If you were in a life raft, and the life raft was sinking because there were too many in the life raft… who would you kick out of the life raft first? (Granted, Circle is a much better Philosophical question, but Belko still ranks right up there.)

So, Shelby, you say, win the game? Do whatever? I mean, real world Shelby, not Hollywood Heroine Shelby. You head into work, and the place locks down, and the tannoy goes off and says, the killing begins now or else everyone dies. You are like… sweet. Judy is first. CANNOT STAND THAT WOMAN. Never mind the fact that I have a wrench in my hand, and she has a stapler. That is more the moral question I was sort of grappling with. Yeah, it’s a stupid question. But whatever. That’s all I talk about on this site is stupid questions.

Not what I said, but there are circumstances where murder is justified. If someone has a gun to my head I should have more options than to just die. Belko presents a very interesting philosophical debate that I think warrants a real discussion beyond “murder is wrong so everyone will just have to die to avoid doing something immoral.”

So it was ok to murder your fellow competitors just because your life is threatened? I disagree.

I definitely disagree. Circumstances are everything. Things are rarely just black and white.