You're overthinking my point. I don't care about the folk wisdom of bad apples.

I was just using it as a way of expressing the issue at the centre of aiming to have a zero tolerance society.

Not tolerating misconduct will always lead to ever increasing intrusion into our lives and people that choose not to take part where they can will automatically be viewed with suspicion for it because the ignorant assumption is only people with something to hide would do that.