This goes with the tendency to concentrate discussion on the intrinsically good, rather than the intrinsically bad.

There are no intrinsically bad Seamen - just inattentive owners.

Yet again, you try to undermine your opponent's argument by making them appear intrinsically bad, rather than dealing with the content of the argument.

But critics say the deal is intrinsically bad.

In rural areas, modern medicine is sometimes rejected on the grounds that it is intrinsically bad.

There is nothing intrinsically bad about such a link and it can be enormously helpful.

For Mr. Bush, the issue may have been philosophical - the idea that regulation is intrinsically bad for the economy was his basic argument against the bill.

Is their presence intrinsically bad?

Some rules outlawed a thing because it was intrinsically bad: child molestation, say.

I have to say that not every euro in the vaults of the European Central Bank will serve to convince people of an intrinsically bad idea.