If you have nothing to hide, then invasive surveillance doesn't hurt you.
If the alternative to invasive surveillance is terrorists flying planes into our buildings and killing thousands of innocent people, then a little extra hassle at the airport is a small price to pay.
That's how most people think. Finding the incorrect implicit assumptions made by these arguments is left as an exercise to the reader.
"If you have nothing to hide, then invasive surveillance doesn't hurt you."
Easily countered with "So what's your email account and password?".
(I love watching the logical contortions that come out next "Well I didn't mean _I've_ got nothing to hide! Or I didn't mean I don't have the right to hide it from _you_ Or or or... Think of the _chiiiiiildren!!! You're probably a terrorist!")
If the alternative to invasive surveillance is terrorists flying planes into our buildings and killing thousands of innocent people, then a little extra hassle at the airport is a small price to pay.
That's how most people think. Finding the incorrect implicit assumptions made by these arguments is left as an exercise to the reader.