It's not that bizarre. It's just an incidental psychological effect of the sunk cost fallacy. "I paid for this, so it must have been worth it, so if a scenario

It's not that bizarre. It's just an incidental psychological effect of the sunk cost fallacy. "I paid for this, so it must have been worth it, so if a scenario happens in which that-which-I-paid-for could have occurred, it must have occurred."