Superman taught us to use the privilege we have to help those that don't.

My personal compromise is that I wear my underwear on the outside, but I don't do any of the other stuff Superman does.

This doesn't invalidate the idea of doing the right thing just because it's right when you can.

Superman is an ideal to strive for, not a model to emulate. Ideals are goals and guides. But pragmatism and necessity still factors into decision making

I wouldn't call 'being the only one who can take the call when Darkseid rolls up' privilege.

Here here.

that was hawk girl

Superman is not superman because he's a Kryptonian with super powers. Superman is superman because he's an idealist and selflessly works his ass off every day to uphold those ideals in any way that he can. It just so happens that what he can do is superhuman. But we can all still contribute to an ideal like him. We can refuse to accept the world we have, the would we think we deserve, the world we think is realistic, but instead work toward an ideal world that we push for every day.

Superman, now stop making questions.

Not Israel, republicans, Putin, or North Korea

Yeah sounds kind of problematic to do whatever you think is good "no matter what the world tells you".

Morality is born from a collective. Typical American superheroes with their shallow ideals.

So Homelander defines good? The "the boys" equivalent of superman.

Oh but you do have to with Superman. That's the entire point of his character and when stories about him shine; when they're about pressing morals and not so much a big baddy to fight. He can do about anything he wants, so it kinda' requires him to be pressed in other ways. Stories that only put him in cliche fights or just have him morally grandstanding are the worst. He is idealized, and that needs to be reconciled with a world that has a lot of grey in it.

The recent superman movie did a decent job of it, the one with Krypto.