It seems like it would play right into spies hand, if you convince people "don't even think this is a possibility!" This reminds me of the paradox of tolerance

It seems like it would play right into spies hand, if you convince people "don't even think this is a possibility!" This reminds me of the paradox of tolerance. You know there would be no hand wringing in china about whether they could even discuss the possibility that some Americans in china could be spies.