Will and the "Greater Good"

From the movie Cabin in the Woods, an idea that I thought was interestingly presented is how the new security guard brought up how the circumstances they create for the sacrifices are rigged. The two main workers talked about how although they (the organization working for the ancient gods) plan out and manipulate the five college kids to the possible options of their deaths, it is ultimately up to them to choose. This leeway provides a loophole because their lack of faith in humanity backfires when the fool's and the virgin's will to live allows them to infiltrate the system. The idea of humanity posed between the "innocent" sacrifices and the organization is also interesting because it seems that the organization finds justification that this ritual is to deter the ancient ones from taking out all of humanity. They celebrate not because they won, but because the death of a few takes the ancient ones off humanity's back for some time. This reminds me of Warm Bodies because the idea of survival and self preservation is prevalent in the organization's reasoning, but their humanity is degraded because of it.