Yes because the kid raising the indestructible alien should be planting the seeds for justification of being an evil person in his son's head? I don't know you, but I doubt you're dad told you it was ok to be evil as long as that's what you decide. That he told you you are the one who decides who you are and that that ultimately falls on you is NOT the same thing as saying whether you're good or bad you're going to be a big deal.
Honest question. Do you and the others who "like" or agree with this have kids? Cause I don't know a single parent (and after this I asked plenty in case I was way off base) that disagrees with me. Maybe to a kid means "yes" even though what the parent is really saying is, "no, but I just want you to leave me alone for like 5 minutes". I think most people who are being honest with themselves agree. Everytime you say maybe it usually means something else. Here's a funny but true article about what I mean. If you read into the comments someone even says the same thing about what kid hears when a parent says yes,
http://www.danoah.com/2010/12/real-d...-of-maybe.html
What you and Lone Necromancer and the others are failing to acknowledge is that words have a definiton, but don't neccesarily mean the same thing coming from the different people. And the meanings are often taken as differently than the definition dependant on who is hearing them and what is going on.
Don't believe me? Don't get your wife or Girlfriend something after she says her birthday/anniversary or whatever isn't a big deal. When she says, "Fine", is she really fine? etc.etc.
As to what I would've said. I would have said to be more careful next time, then pack up what I needed and moved my family immediately out of the country to Canada. I would never advocate to my son to let people die knowing it'd be an easy thing for him to have stopped it. You're also implying that it's a definite that the government is going to find out and disect this "indestructible" kid as you point out. Which it clearly wasn't adefinite since it obviously didn't happen. Because since everyone wants to jump on the "it's more real/believable" wagon and pretend these are all situations/reactions a real person would make.... It's way more believable that a bunch of kids who just nearly drowned after their bus fell into lake, saw something that didn't make sense, than it is to believe a kid moved a bus full of kids and water out of a lake. Not to mention if that happened in the real world you think all of a sudden the government is going to send a bunch of agents to the Kent's house to investigate what some backwater half drowned country yokel kid in Kansas says he saw?
Didn't Clark live on the outside of society anyway? I could've sworn I saw a movie where Clark was a drifter.Or rejected by all and forced to live as a freak outside of society