If parents,upbringing...etc are what matters.then we would only have copies,Not a diverse population(in whatever ways).What about children with no parents?what about human genetic variations?No two humans are genetically identical.Even the most strict people are unable to tame children.Even when and If a Child mimics someone, that's their choice.If you think your child decided to follow you because of you.Then you are wrong.They do it because of them.Children have their own will.The external things may effect you.But your will and your choice is untethereed by those things.Parents want their children to do a lot of things.But,how many of them do and to what degree?even if they do,are they doing that because their parents or their own desire?hasn't human intelligence progressed to a degree where people make their own choices regardless of genetics and even overriding base instincts?This idea that humans can't transcend their respective society or are only as good as world allows them to be, is restricting.
And actually from my experience.Personally always felt,all i need to tell my kid is my opinion on his actions.That's it.Even then,even if i yell and scream.He is gonna do what he wants .I may teach him stuff like how to throw a ball or clean a room.If it wasn't me the kid would have found someone else to learn stuff from,or would have on his own.Because he wanted it and does.Those kids who don't ,even if their parent yell and scream would shirk it.I am just priveledged that the kid chose me.As a baby,I am just it's protector.Whatever i became it's on me.Not on my abusive father and the aunt that took me in.It would be the same for the kid that chose me.
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Yeah, dude, you're not ready to be a parent if that's how you see it. I don't mean to be rude when I say that, but you're describing parenting like talking to a reasonable adult who has life experience and whose actions and well-being you aren't responsible for. Moreover, I don't know anyone who would argue (save you, I suppose) that children without parents aren't at a significant disadvantage. They deserve better. Nobody asked to be here, but everyone deserves parents that love them.
What you described... That's not parenting, and frankly I'm sorry you don't understand that. Strictly put, you've got this all wrong. There's some degree of difference in execution for parenting, but a hands off approach where you only provide an opinion and let the child raised themselves is borderline abandonment. Trying to couch it in evolution or transcendentalism just shows you are but mature enough to understand that there's a difference between your own development and fostering the development of a rapidly growing mind that needs a nurturing and patient influence to filter out the most important lessons to impart on them as well as protect them from things that will hinder their development and potentially damage them when they are most vulnerable to the world's outside influences.
That's the last I'm going to discuss this with you. I don't really think you're ever going to understand the pushback on that philosophy of yours.
Bringing the discussion back home, it's the Kents raising Clark with love and a good understanding of right and wrong that provides the example and morale compass that prevents Evil Superman from ever really being a thing. It's why every take feels like a complete asspull. They're good parents. They raised their son to make good decisions and know the difference between right and wrong. It doesn't mean he's their clone or won't make mistakes. It means he'll recognize those mistakes, learn from and correct them.
Because that's what good parenting does.
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No,I am saying.Whatever life throws at it is your choice that ultimately matters.I don't get to be bad,just cause my parent was abusive.
Personally do alright with kids.They get drawn to me,regardless.Not like the pied piper or anything.Especially because i become a kid with them and have no problem goofing off.It helps me alot actually when i was down..So?Everyone faces some disadvantage in their life.Personally,Kids with no parents can be more well adjusted than the ones that do many a times.
On topic,So what?clark needs that programming?genetic programming or even social? to be "responsible" and "not evil"? Then clark isn't "good" to begin with and should turn "evil".Look,A robot can't be good or bad.It's just a tool.Superman's iron giant.Yet,It doesn't have the novelty or the innocence of that concept.why?Because it's a child raising a robot and not be a gun he was created to be.Do you think a kid needs to raised like that to learn "Mistakes"?right from being a baby a child starts observing it's surroundings and picks up things.Most of people intuitively by just living in the world or even by past experiences(that includes experience from others,everyone around) know when they make mistakes(If they are).I believe,kids have the capacity to know already that "Smoking is bad".Those that do even after having that knowledge do it because "they want to look cool".Some might do it because of ignorance.But those that do,they would know it while doing it and would have all the reasons to stop.People aren't dumb and i don't treat them that way.Even kids.If i were there,I would tell them that(not so calmly.lol!).But i sure as hell am not gonna be this.
this is just treating kids as dumb.I assure you no kid like this or would take this seriously.And the choice was the iron giant's,not hogarths at the end of the day regardless of what when it acquired intelligence.
Last edited by manwhohaseverything; 05-12-2021 at 08:49 PM.
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Everyone knows that the best evil Superman is Captain Hero from Drawn Together.
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I think a version of an Injustice adaptation that I would actually love would have to be too different from the games and comics to really satisfy Injustice fans? Jettison the conceit that Good Superman could someday become Evil Superman if he suffered enough, perhaps. Make the meta reality that Regime Superman is evil primarily because he's just built to be that way from the ground up (by the writers in real life) into an explicit part of the text.
Every explanation or tragedy is just a vain attempt to rationalize the fact that the writers wanted an evil Superman. So maybe that's part of the story too! Maybe Superman is actually his evil doppelganger Kru-El, or Ultra-Humanite in Superman's body or something, and this faker personally engineered the illusory Doomsday, the nuke, etc to have an excuse to get rid of Lois Lane before she could figure out something was wrong with her husband, or to give "Superman" political plausibility and support for his fascistic regime.
But of course if you do that, it's not really an adaptation of Injustice anymore, is it? It's a rebuttal. But that's the version of an Injustice adaptation I would want to see. Starring Big Blue here, the real one, leading the charge against his imposter.
Similarly, despite being a Zack Snyder fan and apologist (at least where Superman is concerned - I legitimately dislike 300, but I digress) I always wanted the "Steven Moffat twist" that after all the build-up in BvS and ZSJL, the evil Superman was actually Brutaal all along. Brutaal is by far my favorite Evil Superman, precisely because he's, well, not really Superman, and that's the whole point of him, the bait-and-switch. I guess it's not impossible that Snyder was just doing a really good job of hiding the twist, but frankly I wouldn't bet any money on that.
"You know the deal, Metropolis. Treat people right or expect a visit from me."
The only good superman that turns bad that I could accept, is a superman that changes due to external forces, not because he is mentally or emotionally weak. For example, when he is sent to earth he is exposed to dark energy that corrupts him, that energy becomes stronger with the increase in superman's power, that is why his actions are more and more violent until one day he loses control altogether.
Yeah, I have no problem with Evil Superman who is possessed by some great evil entity like the Anti-Life Equation, Darkseid, or Red Kryptonite. Dickhead Superman is a lot of fun. And the story works because you know that Good Superman is still trapped in there fighting to get out.
Well it sort of literally is, isn't it? I always thought the real meta tragedy of Injustice was that Good Superman reacted with horror at the realization that he was secretly capable of all that evil, ignorant of the true culprit: the fact that the writers had arbitrarily decided that his counterpart should be the Worst Villain Imaginable. So Superman goes through all this rigamarole with the Kryptonite capsule inside of him and all that, even though the simple fact is from a structural, writing perspective, the other guy was chosen to wear the bad guy hat, and he wasn't, and that's it that's the only reason.
Which is why I'm so fond of the idea of the Evil Doppelganger Reveal in cases like this. It literalizes the fact that the heel turn is out of Superman's control and he bears no moral culpability for it.
Also as just a side note, I want to say, it's not inherently bad writing. Everything I've heard about Tom Taylor indicates that he did good work on the Injustice comic, as good of a job as one can do on character growth when working from one good character to an inorganic, fixed evil conclusion. He allegedly missed Good Superman while writing it, but that was the job and he gave it his all. And that's fair. It's not necessarily bad writing, but it is an artificial imposition of evil onto Superman's character.
"You know the deal, Metropolis. Treat people right or expect a visit from me."