If I sold my soul for a bag of gold to you, which one of us would be the foolish one?

Buyer and seller would both be losers

I’m not for sale.

I would gladly sign my “soul” over for a bag of gold.

@DrBill How do you figure they would both be losers?

I make a point of not selling my soul. I am broke but pretty damn self-satisfied and happy.

But to answer your question- you’d both be fools, but the seller would be the bigger idiot.

@Likeradar You could see however, how someone like myself who does not believe in souls would be very happy with their new bag of gold.

I didn’t sell my soul but the devil does have a long-term lease on it.

@buster

NICE!

@benjaminlevi Absolutely! :)

@benjaminlevi

Your soul belongs to God, the seller would be selling stolen goods, the buyer would be buying stolen goods.

In life the government owns most of your paycheck, the bank owns your house and car, most material possessions can be stolen or break. The human body eventually fails.

So in essence your soul is the only thing you can truly own.

If someone wanted it that bad it must have value.

I would not sell.

The seller would be the greater fool.

You’re the fool for selling. Now do my bidding, scum!

Nah, if I want to be evil, I can do it on my own. I’ll keep my soul, thank you very much!

@cak @ru2bz46 @Dog @jonsblond Why would you selling your soul be a bad thing? Does the soul exist? What are your thoughts?

At last! An explanation for Paris Hilton!

@Lupin ???

@boots – When I read the question, I looked at it from the point of view that it would be sold to a not so friendly source. Without completely invoking a religious conversation, I’m thinking the Devil. It’s the first thing that came to mind.

However, now that you are asking why, it makes me look at this in a different direction. I guess, when I was at the height of my fight w/ cancer, I did offer my soul for the favor of health. “Please God, if you save me – if you make the cancer go away, I’ll do whatever you want me to do.” In a sense, that could be considered making the offer to sell one’s soul. (and no, I wasn’t “cured” right away.)

I just lean more to the automatic thought of someone selling their soul to the devil. what does that say about my thought process?

Even just the possibility of possessing a soul is worth more than a measly bag of gold. The seller is a moron and the buyer is a curious (as in odd) person… what need does he have for a second soul? What’s he going to do with it? Re-sell it on ebay?

This whole situation is nothing more than a Wimpy situation (the character from the popeye cartoon). He said: “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today”.

The seller is getting a nice, juicy hamburger (bag of gold).. but he’ll certainly pay dearly for it on Tuesday.

I would be the fool. Since there is no such thing as a soul, I would end up poor, having obtained only a promise of an abstract idea with no merit.

If there would be such a thing as a soul, I think I still would be the fool, since I can’t think of any reason why I would want one, or what the hell I would do with one. Maybe if I could wear it as a beanie?

Yes. I want it. How much gold?

I like how people add their own options to the answer.

Teacher: Train A leaves new york at 35kph.. Train B

Student: Stop stop stop.. I don’t believe in trains.. this question isn’t logical.

I believe my soul is worth 1.43 Billion US Dollars.
Since America is debt ridden, the lucky buyers have to come from middle-east.

I stick firmly to my principles.

Nice Bright Eyes quote.

I would never sell my soul.

I’d be foolish since I have no idea what you are offering me, or what I’d do with it, unless you are proposing to be my slave, which isn’t legal where I live, so I’d be foolish in that case too.

“Have you literally “sold your soul”?”
– No.

“What is your “soul” worth.”
– I could only answer from my own definition of what my soul is, and in that definition, it’s not about worth, unless you’re talking about having me do programming work on a project I don’t have any real interest in, in which case I think the going rate is something like $75/hour.

I’m assuming the questions purpose is to break us into one of two camps. Either you believe in a “soul” or you don’t. If you do, than the seller is the fool. If you don’t, then the buyer is the fool.

So I was considering that when another option occured to me. Even if you don’t believe in a soul conciously, and so you sell it, to the buyer whom you believe is the fool for having bought an imaginary item, you still might suffer some ill effect. Its reasonable that someone, even if they don’t believe in a soul, may have some deep-seated subconscious leanings with regard to the word “soul”, because of the impact of the word itself and its meaning to society at large. In the end, its plausible that one might suffer somehow regardless of their attitudes. Then they become the fool after all.

I’ve never sold my soul and I never will. No one could afford me because I’m priceless. In more ways than one.

Reminds me of that episode of The Simpsons when Bart sold his soul to Milhouse.

Value is subjective. After a drunken night, returning home cold, tired, lonely and very hungry… perhaps an Oriole Cookie is all you would need. Satan waits for the opportune time to make business deals. My weaknesses are to his advantage.

The one that parted with the gold.