I perceived his point as more subtle than what you make it out to be. The whole debate is about what's grey vs what's gray. I don't think there's a clear cut a

I perceived his point as more subtle than what you make it out to be. The whole debate is about what's grey vs what's gray. I don't think there's a clear cut answer either way to the question "Is encryption an inviolable right?" The exercise here is to try and find a border between gray and grey, preferably avoiding any knee-jerk reaction such as backdooring every encryption scheme. Note that I'm assuming such a border exists, which is, to be honest, not on such solid ground. It might very well be that this is an "all or nothing" deal, considering the nature of encryption...