The court order does not require Apple turn over their private key. What it does is compel Apple to sign something with their private key, under duress. You're

The court order does not require Apple turn over their private key. What it does is compel Apple to sign something with their private key, under duress. You're basically making a might makes right argument, far extended from a Hamiltonian position of implied powers. If public key cryptography can't be trusted, and governments are as a matter of fact not fully trusted and in at least the U.S. we're taught explicitly that it can't blindly be trusted which is why we have a written constitution, then the entire trust model fails and we can just stop with all of this nonsense and go back to pen and paper.