Burning the Jail Down

My son Michael loves to play with fire. One day I caught him disobeying and lighting fires around the yard and too close to the neighbor's house. I was very alarmed by this and pulled him aside.

"Michael, do you know what would happen if you played with fire and burned somebody's house down?"

"What?" he asked sheepishly.

"You'd get arrested and they'd put you in jail."

He looked me right in the eye, deadly serious, and without hesitation responded, "Fine, then I'll burn the jail down."