He who has no choice will never have a choice. Since we had a hypothetical scenario, who is to say they wanted to save him for later because if your kicks this way chances are you will want to do it again.
For those of you with the question, "Did he have a choice?" did he have a choice later if they wanted to have fun with him?
The more things change the more they stay the same, fact! It was a different time and we still have the same end results going on today by different methods.