Because you can come up with all sorts of rebuttals from certain individuals, like "I don't care if they invade my privacy, they are welcome to look into my bed

Because you can come up with all sorts of rebuttals from certain individuals, like "I don't care if they invade my privacy, they are welcome to look into my bedroom all they want, there is nothing interesting there". We already see a form of that reasoning from people regarding personal data tracking, saying stuff like "i have nothing to hide". On the other hand, you cannot come up with a similar simplistic argument when someone brings up "think of the children" without giving out some really bad soundbites of yourself. You cannot just say "well, I don't care about children, it wouldn't affect them much anyway" without being represented as a heartless moron by the opposition. Disclaimer: this is just all for the sake of the argument. I, personally, am very strongly against this "think of the children" bs tactic and am fully in favor of E2E encryption. It is just sad that the "think of the children" argument is so effective solely due to the emotional appeal and how difficult it is to fight against that argument without coming off in poor light.