No offense taken. By the time I had graduated I had already decided I wasn't going to practice law, but I still went on to take and pass the New York and New Jersey State bars just cuz. The reason I think I got turned off to law was I think just seeing how the sausage gets made. Lawyers are not people who work to make sure that the laws are as fair as possible, they are people who believe that everything that gets excreted out of the legal system is inherently justified merely because it erupted from what everyone knows to be a grossly irrational system. Lawyers think that the world would collapse without them and that the words they write down on pieces of paper are all that is standing between us and chaos. None of that is true, but of course, who is going to listen to non-lawyers? Yes there are certain functions which lawyers perform that are of tremendous value like creating, negotiating, and monitoring contracts to name just a few. But the vast majority of law exists to serve lawyers and their clients. That and the fact that all lawyers really do is read intentionally boring documents all day :)
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well, some of us count and move money all day...