Politicians like this never seem to understand that when I strongly oppose their position and challenge the law they want to pass, I am thinking of the children.

In particular, I don't want the next generation to grow up in an authoritarian surveillance state, where thought-crime is punishable, deviation from conventional wisdom is an anomaly to be corrected, and these punishments and corrections are mostly enforced automatically by some impersonal system where no-one in power has any real responsibility or accountability for the effect they have on other people's lives.

The things that happen to some children are awful, and of course any decent human being wants to see them stopped and to see the people who would do them kept away from those they would harm. However, these events are not the only important factor here. We need a rational, considered position on the issues as a whole, not an extreme position based on one emotionally-charged issue and the near-exclusion of all other considerations.