You can sell things which don't "exist". They're called intangible assets - like goodwill. A soul, on the other hand, can't be sold because there isn't a market for it. It's not possible to supply one or acquire one.
Those things exist as ideas, and ideas can be sold. That's why a price can be put on them. If I sold my keyboard online to someone and they received a piece of paper in the mail with the exact details of my keyboard down to the smallest detail, they would feel ripped off, and for good reason. There is a difference between my keyboard and the idea of my keyboard.
Anything can exist as an idea. Some things only exist as ideas, such as a soul, but we don't specify that we are only talking about the idea of a soul because it would be tedious. It would be like reading a book that has dragons in it and instead of seeing the word "dragon" you see "the idea of a dragon."
"There is a difference between my keyboard and the idea of my keyboard."
You could only sell the idea of a soul. Just as my example with the keyboard, anyone who claimed to be buying or selling a soul would effectively be a fraud.
It would be like trying to sell someone a dragon and handing them nothing. (Literally miming handing them something.) They would obviously know you are lying with a dragon. However, with a soul, it is generally thought to not have visual properties so there is the possibility that the person believes you really bought or sold them something. They would be a fraud nonetheless.
To put it another way: You could sell the idea for a new car to a company and the company could then go and create that car, and then sell the actual car. The idea of the car and the actual car are two separate things. This is an example where both the idea and the thing itself exists.
"Some things only exist as ideas, such as a soul"
Can you sell a soul? No.
Can you sell the idea of a soul? Yes.
Can you sell your soul ?
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You can sell things which don't "exist". They're called intangible assets - like goodwill. A soul, on the other hand, can't be sold because there isn't a market for it. It's not possible to supply one or acquire one.
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Those things exist as ideas, and ideas can be sold. That's why a price can be put on them. If I sold my keyboard online to someone and they received a piece of paper in the mail with the exact details of my keyboard down to the smallest detail, they would feel ripped off, and for good reason. There is a difference between my keyboard and the idea of my keyboard.
Anything can exist as an idea. Some things only exist as ideas, such as a soul, but we don't specify that we are only talking about the idea of a soul because it would be tedious. It would be like reading a book that has dragons in it and instead of seeing the word "dragon" you see "the idea of a dragon."
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"Ideas can be sold"
"Anything can exist as an idea"
So you can sell a soul?
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"There is a difference between my keyboard and the idea of my keyboard."
You could only sell the idea of a soul. Just as my example with the keyboard, anyone who claimed to be buying or selling a soul would effectively be a fraud.
It would be like trying to sell someone a dragon and handing them nothing. (Literally miming handing them something.) They would obviously know you are lying with a dragon. However, with a soul, it is generally thought to not have visual properties so there is the possibility that the person believes you really bought or sold them something. They would be a fraud nonetheless.
To put it another way: You could sell the idea for a new car to a company and the company could then go and create that car, and then sell the actual car. The idea of the car and the actual car are two separate things. This is an example where both the idea and the thing itself exists.
"Some things only exist as ideas, such as a soul"
Can you sell a soul? No.
Can you sell the idea of a soul? Yes.