Why are anime fans against buying anime?

Out of all the hobbies and fandom out there, anime fans are some of the most backwards people I know. It's the only fandom I can think of where it's members actually encourage each other NOT to support the very thing they love. Why is that?

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There was no assumption, things were stated quite clearly.

It's not two sentences from different posts strung together, as they come right after another at the very end of the second paragraph in post >>21.

Regarding you spelling it out again, those arguments were read the first time (save the one new bit about the market being narrower, which I imagine was already understood by all parties), and have already been addressed above.

And as was pointed out, US series DVDs are comparable in price to anime series DVDs these days.