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It seems to me your complaint is with the entire commercial system, and I'm not even saying you're wrong. It's a valid complaint.
Realistically, literally every method used to get folks to buy anything is to a greater or lesser extent manipulative.
Any advertising on tv or any other media, the way stores set up displays and lay out their floor plans, the packaging of every product you buy and use, it's all designed to make people buy more and buy things they don't need due to triggering emotional and psychological responses.
People can and do get addicted to buying literally anything and everything, just buying for the sake of buying. It's why Americans in particular, but really people in all developed countries, tend to collect so much junk. All marketing takes advantage of that, but I don't see how a reasonable solution is to stop buying anything and everything because of that.
But to somehow pick on what we're doing here as somehow being more manipulative than the advertising methods used by the companies that you likely do still buy stuff from every day, and maybe even the companies you've worked for (if they've ever advertised, though I guess not all law firms do) seems to me to be somewhat selective at best.
That being said, as Markus mentioned, to feel the way you do is your right. and if you think we are acting in a way you can't bear, that's somehow worse than what other companies you'll continue to frequent do, you have the option of not buying our products in the future. It's your choice to make and we'll always respect that, even if it makes us sad.
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