The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned.

We spoke in class of soul-selling; bargaining up your soul in return for something you want.  Faustus sells his soul for 24 years of life with Mephistophilis as his servant. This brings me to the question, what good is a soul? Do they really exist, and if so, what does it mean for us? Are our bodies just shells, dresses that our souls wear to prom? Souls are, in a sense, our life essence, in the way that some people see it. Without them we are nothing, so if you sell your soul don't you become nothing? Just a walking body, void of a human inside. I guess your soul stays with you until your deal is up, but it's tainted. I, honestly, don't believe in Heaven or Hell, though it's fun to pretend. There's a show called Supernatural, and one character is soulless; he doesn't feel anything. No remorse, no guilt, no shame.  So, if your soul is gone, are you fully functioning just without a moral sense or are you simply walking flesh? I have to connect this to the world somehow, so I'm going to connect it to the court system. Everyday lawyers, fully aware of the guilt of their client, fight on the defense. They know their client had committed the crime they are being accused of, the murder or the rape or the theft, yet fight for the person to go free. All for what?  For a fast car and a shiny watch?  Isn't this selling your soul to the devil? Except instead of a forked tail and two horns this devil has a gleaming eye and a pocket full of cash. The people on the defense team for O.J Simpson had to have some idea that he had murdered his wife and her friend. (Of course, I was only one year old when this happened and am not a cop so my opinion can't really be relied on.)  But they defended him, found a way to get him free. People in everyday society sell their souls to the devil, for all kinds of reasons, and just because it doesn't come with a 24 year contract doesn't make them any better, or Faustus any worse.  What I'm saying here, I think, is that even though I don't believe in a devil, I still think it's possible to sell your soul. To go against what you believe is right because it benefits you in some way.