What I&#x27;m not seeing people talk about is whether the FBI should be allowed to force someone to do something unethical, immoral, and&#x2F;or criminal.  Generally speaking, breaking into a system that you aren&#x27;t authorized to access, or creating and distributing tools that allow other people to do so, is considered &#x27;bad&#x27;.  Shouldn&#x27;t Apple have every right to say no, that&#x27;s wrong, I&#x27;m not going to do that?<p>Governments have ordered people to do bad things before.  How do you view those who justified their evil actions with excuses like &quot;I was just following orders&quot; or &quot;just doing my job&quot;?  Is it right for our government to put people into that situation -- not just government employees or their targets&#x2F;adversaries, but neutral 3rd parties?<p>If a policeman ordered you to do something repulsively bad that would harm your family, friends, and neighbors, would you not want to be able to say no?<p>That view doesn&#x27;t require any great technical knowledge of cryptography or hardware&#x2F;software&#x2F;etc.  Pretty much anyone could understand it.  Yet no one seems to be mentioning it.