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"What does it benefit to gain the whole world if you lose your soul?" - Jesus

• chronic71819 7y ago
  > "What does it benefit to gain the whole world if you lose your soul?" - Jesus I'd gladly sell my soul for a couple of billion. Hell, I'd let it go for a discount at a few tens of millions.
  • yters 7y ago
    In that framework you are giving up something of infinite value for something of finite value, which is irrational.
    • jldugger 7y ago
      I suspect the OP disagrees that souls have infinite value, because they do not exist.
      • yters 7y ago
        The big point is to not give up something of greater value for lesser value. Human rights have greater value than increasing profit margins.
• tialaramex 7y ago
  Most famously quoted in the play "A Man for all Seasons" "It profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... But for Wales?" Thomas More is convicted and will be executed, on the false evidence of a man who he now sees is wearing a chain of office, he asks to see the chain (thereby establishing for the audience what the reward was for lying to secure More's conviction). The chain is for the Attorney General for Wales, prompting this line. In reality Richard Rich was given a slightly different job with a longer title that doesn't afford such a fun line and of course we can't prove he got it for his deceits, though he does seem like he wasn't on the whole a truthful and upstanding person.