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>Pa Kent needs to be 100% perfect and have no doubts! He's Clark's moral bedrock!
>Pa Kent should have just had his invincible son save the dog, or just prioritized keeping himself safe
Okay, so... which is it? Should Pa Kent be Clark's moral foundation, or should he just have Clark do things so he doesn't have to? That
"invincible son" was helping a mother and her toddler get to safety, as Jon went back for the dog.
If any normal person had been in that situation, they wouldn't have been able to do anything. In that moment, Clark feels how helpless everyone else is in that situation, which is why he then goes on to help others in similarly helpless situations via the nomadic lifestyle at the start of the movie which leads to the Superman persona/identity.