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This is true. Which is why I used "should be" instead of "are" or "is". Barring writer limitations, a focused character should have the capability to surpass an unfocused character in their skill/trait/ability of focus. LeeRoy said essentially the same thing in his review of Bushido's character.
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Perhaps, but then you get into annoying debates about how long-lived characters would have an inherent advantage, and frankly despite what people may have told you, we're not all born equal. Frankly, there's no logical reason why a being who can live to three hundred couldn't have devoted 100 years to swordsmanship and then gunmanship, and yet be worse than a soldier who's devoted twenty years to just gunmanship.