I was fingerprinted as a kid. Some musty smelling men in suits came and did everybody. Some kids even thought it was fun at the time (1976 or so, Canada), like being in a cop show. Later, in high school,I decided it had been an odd thing to for the authorities to have done. At that time I concluded that its sole possible use would be for future identification of criminals - and thus a mistrust of authority was instilled, and surely most intelligent kids would eventually come to some variation of that conclusion; that at the very least that it was unfair to the majority who never commit serious crimes. So there is a subtle, self-defeating tactic built into these kinds of moves.
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