"So, you see my adoptive parent assertion and raise me a "worked in a soup kitchen, etc, etc, etc," eh? predictably played, sir! How all of that is relevant to the question of the veracity of your original anecdote and subsequent claims that your son thought it up all on his own, I'm not sure."   -  -  -  -  you seem to question how someone at such a young age could conceive of an opinion. All I did was show that he never thought conventionally or did thing conventionally. That he was always very exploratory in studies and in life from the time he was even younger.

"But, since you've called the hand and shown us your cards, I have to say I'm impressed. Your son must be quite the prodigy to have become the director of a city program at the age of 16 or 17,"  - - -  I am afraid you are a bit off and kind of mixed things around. Walkathon at ages 13 and 14. He worked at a soup kitchen between his junior and senior high school years. He was director of this retarded adult program while he was in college for 3 years. I didn't say it was a city job. It was the city chapter of a national organization. And he did the other volunteer work after graduating college. He is 26 years old now. He has done things I never did or thought to and with every experience he learned things directly about people that you and others only assume. I have learned more from him than he has learned from me. He has a moral compass that is based on his own life experiences and his own understanding that as he called a "twist of fate" he could have never had the opportunities he did have or never have been born at all.