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3. That is possible sure. Though the gun might not be random, nor lying around. So it's equally possible that it's fully loaded, ready to go, and I shoot him easily. The point is that a correct strategy can overcome the superiority of the copy by rendering its superiority irrelevant, and that victory, therefore, is entirely possible.

4. I don't understand what you are saying here. Is it that the author always determines who wins in a fight so the whole conversation about hypothetical better versions of characters fighting themselves is entirely pointless?
3. you might also be in a country where guns aren't allowed to citizens, or the gun is a toy spray-painted look like a real one, or its filled with blanks, on top of the possibility of it not being loaded or not having the safety off, there are at least five possible scenarios where you lose compared to this one possibility where you win. your "correct" strategy is improbable and therefore not correct at all, given that there are more ways this can go wrong for you than right, and thats not counting the fact that your finger slips and you accidentally shoot yourself, so six ways, really.

4. Yes. because if they are superior, the versions by definition win and if they don't then its the author arbitrarily deciding the "inferior" version wins anyways. either way its stupid because your either stating the obvious in the former or being illogical and using the words "superior" and "inferior" wrong.