If you could only save one person who would it be?

To people are held hostage along with you. It is your choice. You must kill one of them and the other will be free. The first person is your father or mother or some other older relative that you love very much. The second person is a little kid between the ages of 6–8. You have never met him or her in your whole life. If you don’t choose both will be brutally murdered. You have absolutely no chance of escape and neither do they.