Of course, these are not questions to concern war correspondents such as the Sun's Dan Wootton, who is keen to have a good crisis, and will take whatever risks with his personal safety are necessary to bring back the story to a public too coddled by its delusions to realise what is at stake.
Even as web entrepreneurs are coddled in London, a shortage of skilled engineers pushes up labour costs in Aberdeen.
(In my household, we frequently remind our coddled Vizsla that "dogtonomy" isn't even a word).
But when victories are increasingly assembled from coalitions of coddled partisans and scientifically-targeted special interest voters, politicians should be more willing to reach across party lines and embrace compromise.
There was a receptive audience for the Freudian idea that repressed self-hatred could lead to self-absorption, grandiosity and shallowness in individuals, and for the notion that this personality disorder could somehow be reflected in the spirit of a wealthy, coddled and self-indulgent age.For Sigmund Freud, there was a good sort of narcissism, at least in early life, and a bad sort.
Louie Gohmert, a Texas congressman, had earlier warned of enemies sending mothers-to-be to America to have their babies who could then be "raised and coddled as future terrorists" before being sent back.Only about a sixth of the world's nations practise birthright citizenship.
And the girls he "cared for" at his special school in Vanni, his embryonic Tamil homeland in the north-east of the island, were trained to strap explosive belts underneath their dresses, a branch of warfare he had more or less invented.He was a shy, coddled child, the son of a land officer.
That requires radical liberalisation of labour and product markets, more competition and less protection, lower taxes and cuts in public spending, plus a shake-up of the coddled public services.
They're lazy and coddled the argument goes, workers from less wealthy countries tend to be keen to get the work.
It is imprudent because history suggests that coddled banks, supported by regulatory fiat, tend to be weak ones (ask the Japanese).
