I hope I'm not misinterpreted as claiming that a balance must be struck between strong encryption and backdoored encryption. I was talking about a higher level

I hope I'm not misinterpreted as claiming that a balance must be struck between strong encryption and backdoored encryption. I was talking about a higher level balance, of which encryption is only one issue. We agree that the strength of encryption itself leans heavily towards the extremes; a "balance" on that particular issue is usually just misleading rhetoric.