Dennis Prager refuses to have his wife cook dinner for him, framing it as a psychological need for freedom rather than a moral stance. He compares eating at home to a prison sentence and imagines his own Statue of Liberty holding a restaurant and rental car instead of a torch.
I am a very, very atypical man. I don't want my wife to make dinner for me. Not because I'm noble. I don't want it. You will not have a higher opinion of me when I tell you this, but it doesn't matter. It's not a moral issue. It's my idiosyncratic psychological makeup. Ever since I was a child, 'Cause I am crazed about freedom. And I thought eating at home was a prison sentence. And that is how I still regard it. If I had a Statue of Liberty, there would be two things on Dennis Prager's Statue of Liberty instead of a torch. One would be a restaurant. And the other would be a rental car. I identify both with freedom.
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