Oh, definitely, and Waid puts it very well - he underlines the point I was making, in fact. What I was saying was that his Kryptonian origin was ultimately irrelevant to WHY he does what he does - he does it because it's the right thing to do, and because he can. His learning of Krypton's destruction underscores this motivation, but does not replace it - it's the 'How', not the 'Why'. If he'd come from the center of the Earth and gotten his powers from irradiated moles, he still would've used them in the exact same way. (Well, maybe not EXACTLY the same way - I'm not sure what kind of powers you'd get from irradiated moles.)