This actually strikes close to home. Two of the closest people to me are lawyers, and they hate discussing law with me. The problem as I see it is that I'm in

This actually strikes close to home. Two of the closest people to me are lawyers, and they hate discussing law with me. The problem as I see it is that I'm interested in what the best law/result would be, and they're focused on what's likely to happen in the real world. An abstract problem for me is making sausage for them. Of course, they might believe that the sausage is also the best result, and that there is no platonic ideal solution, or they might have just learned not to care, or something else. I don't know. In any case, if you believe in being a responsible citizen in a democratic society, you should spend some time thinking about how government should work, and part of that is how the legal system works. If you think that's all a pile of BS we teach our kids to keep them innocent, you probably aren't wasting your time on thinking about these kinds of problems, as it's just how lawyers justify their existence (in terms of making a living).