What would you do if you were president and aliens attacked

The situation:

You are the president of America. Everything is going great for you, but then one day some very nasty aliens invade the Earth. With their amazingly powerful technology, they destroy our planet's defences. The leader of the aliens then goes to the White House to meet with you. The alien leader wants you to sign a deal which will entitle the aliens to abduct thirty percent of the children of Earth. If you sign the deal, the aliens will take the children and leave. If you do not meet the aliens' demands, they will destroy the Earth entirely. Also, the aliens are invincible - you cannot defeat them.

Bear in mind, the aliens are going to make the children work in an outer-space circus. The aliens are not very nice though. They will keep the children in tiny cages between shows and sometimes they will hurt them just for fun. Also, the aliens are going to inject the children with some kind of space goo which will make them live forever, to make sure that they don't die during the circus acts which are very dangerous. This means that they will have to work forever at the space circus!

What would you do? Do you give thirty percent of the world's children away to the aliens, or should we all die together?

I'd give them the children. What have children ever done for me?

If you don't give up 30% of your children, you give up 100% of everybody.
It's all too obvious what the choice is.

This sounds like it came right out of Torchwood: Children of Earth.

I'd promise the aliens the children and then use the clever trick I had hidden up my sleeve to defeat them and save everyone. If they really are invincible then I guess I'd end up screwing everyone over.

This is extremely selfish of me, but I would just give away all the bad children. I rather have 30 percent of all the bad children gone then everyone gone.

That or I would think up some witty idea to get around this dilemma. I can't think of any at the moment though. :/

Quite frankly, I'd rather let them destroy the Earth and make no one suffer than to make the entire planet suffer grief and have the abducted children exploited. Also, if the aliens were this powerful, what makes you think that just giving away the children will make them go away permanently? Surely they will find other, more sadistic ways of hurting us in the future?

Sacrificing 8.1% of the world population (it's estimated that 27% of the world population is under the age of 15. 30% of 27% is 8.1%) is a lot more favorable than 100%.

The most noble answer is obvious, no matter how sadistic it may seem.

i would sign it, just being selfish, though if they did come back for more i wouldnt make another deal

Jolene said:

Also, the aliens are invincible - you cannot defeat them.

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I'll try to and fail. Thus ends the human saga.

Jack O'Neill said:

There is absolutely nothing stopping me from annihilating the aliens by shoving a few nukes up their collective asses.

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Apart from:

Jolene said:

they destroy our planet's defences.

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Actually, I don't like children...

So yeah, I'd give em away, it's a burden of my back...
Besides, people can always reproduce again.

I would give the childen to the aliens because it would save Earth.

TRIFORCE89 said:

Why would America decide what happens to the rest of us countries? Can't hold a meeting of leaders?

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I'm assuming it's because the aliens touched down in northern Virginia and Washington was the first adminitrative center of government they saw. I'm fairly sure that if the aliens landed in London, the British Prime minister would have to make this decision, etc...