Sunk Cost Fallacy Question Pack - Free Download

By 1965, it was clear America wasn't winning in Vietnam. But the US had already sent hundreds of thousands of soldiers and spent billions of dollars. So they sent more. Then more. By 1969, there were 540,000 American soldiers in Vietnam - not because winning was likely, but because stopping felt like waste.

President Johnson said "we've come too far to turn back now." That single sentence - and the thinking behind it - kept the war going for years after it should have ended. Past costs don't change future outcomes. The money was gone. The lives were gone. Spending more didn't bring any of it back.

That's the Sunk Cost Fallacy: continuing something that isn't working because of what you've already put in - as if quitting would waste more than carrying on does. Your kids fall for it, and so does every adult they know. In every "I can't stop now, I've come too far" they'll ever tell themselves. This free Question Pack teaches them to catch it.

What's in the free Question Pack:

• Discussion and research questions that get kids arguing about the Vietnam War story - the productive kind of arguing
• A guided walk through how "we've come too far to turn back" kept a nation escalating an unwinnable war - year after year, life after life
• An answer sheet, so you can run it at the dinner table or in a classroom with zero prep

The deal, stated plainly

We teach people to spot manipulation, so it would be a bit rich to hide ours. This pack is free because it's the best advertisement we have. You hand over your email, we send the download, and every so often we'll email you about new comics, book and our card game. Unsubscribe the moment we get boring. 

One email. Check your spam folder - our goodies have a talent for landing there. 

What the free pack doesn't include

The fully illustrated Vietnam War. The Duchess & Bruno comic. The Spot-the-Fallacy hunt through real ads and headlines. The Code Breaker, the Draw Your Own Comic page, and the hidden Gizmo kids go feral trying to find.

All of that lives in the Sunk Cost Fallacy Activity Pack - a 20-page printed booklet, rated 5.0 by teachers and parents on Etsy and TPT. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "My kids absolutely adore the characters and story! It reminds us of horrible histories. I haven't found anything like this pack before." - Sandra

It's one of 24. Every pack takes one fallacy, one historical disaster and one comic - and turns them into a kid who is very hard to fool.