As the strongest man alive and a law-abiding citizen, how the world sees him is as important as how he accomplishes justice. An especially poignant image in Son of Kal-El #3 was when Jon is put in handcuffs at a peaceful protest. Jon does this by being a public figure who wrestles with good and bad. Jon Kent, though, was encouraged by his father to use his powers to intervene and fight for justice. The authors ask the reader in publications like Injustice or Red Son to fear Superman using his power to take down evil men because "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." When Superman does this, it's viewed as a bad thing, often through the same viewpoint, Lex Luthor uses. He doesn't want to be seen as a champion of arbitrary morals, but a champion of humanity. The fact that he, too, is of Earth should be used for the underprivileged. One of the conversations that he and Clark had in Son of Kal-El #1 was that Jon owed it to the world to use his lineage as a human to help them. Jon Kent, however, is not as concerned with how the world perceives him.
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