# Would you sell your soul to someone claiming to be the devil? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 11, 2013, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul-to-someone-claiming-to-be-the-devil/652616 "2013-03-11T05:24:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul-to-someone-claiming-to-be-the-devil/652616/41 "2013-03-11T17:23:27Z")
I figure if there is a hell I’m going there anyway. I may as well make a little money before I get there. $75 isn’t enough, so I might try for more. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul-to-someone-claiming-to-be-the-devil/652616/42 "2013-03-11T17:23:51Z")
Maybe, maybe not… This is a great excuse to plug one of my favourite Canadian (and Don McKellar) movies, [Highway 61](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102035/) The antagonist believes he is the devil and buys up souls for $20 a pop 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dataguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@dataguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dataguy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul-to-someone-claiming-to-be-the-devil/652616/43 "2013-03-11T17:31:36Z")
First I’d make sure that he’s a man of wealth and taste. But what’s puzzling me is the nature of his game. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul-to-someone-claiming-to-be-the-devil/652616/44 "2013-03-11T17:46:50Z")
I wouldn’t do it because I learned long ago that there are no free rides. Taking money from someone, especially someone who believes he is the devil, just cannot be good for you. Poor guy! I would probably think he was just trying to sell me something and keep ignoring him and walk away. ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul-to-someone-claiming-to-be-the-devil/652616/45 "2013-03-11T17:52:18Z")
$75 to give away something that doesn’t exist and is unverifiable? Sign me up! ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul-to-someone-claiming-to-be-the-devil/652616/46 "2013-03-11T17:55:43Z")
The thing that gets me about this is the implications. If the guy is just a kook, no harm done. (Unless he harms you). But if the guy really is a devil, and he really does want to buy your soul, doesn’t that suggest that at least some of the other stuff in the mythology is true? If there’s a devil & souls, then there probably is a god, heaven, hell, etc? So isn’t the very fact that there is a devil and he wants your soul is basically proof that selling your soul to a devil is one of the stupidest things you could do? ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul-to-someone-claiming-to-be-the-devil/652616/47 "2013-03-11T18:14:00Z")
Would you be interested in selling your sense of humor then? ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul-to-someone-claiming-to-be-the-devil/652616/48 "2013-03-11T18:43:33Z")
Nope, not for any amount of money. Not because I believe in the devil or heaven or hell or anything like that but because I simply don’t know what lies beyond this life, if anything. Why in the world would I take even the slightest chance of being wrong about eternal life and all that jazz for a cash payment today? I wouldn’t be willing to take cash in exchange for being slapped around by Vishnu for eternity either because I can’t say for certain that it isn’t a possibility. If hell exists I might end up there anyway but I’d like to know that it wasn’t because I was stupid enough to exchange eternity for the equivalent of 4 large supreme pizzas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul-to-someone-claiming-to-be-the-devil/652616.md?page=2)