(Ok I see your clarification of your original question now ^_^)

No, of course not. Starting with 4 of A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8 you are guaranteed to win, that's what I'm saying.

If you extend this to scenarios 3, 4 etc where player A has the top 3, 4 etc ranks, player A is guaranteed to win when they hold the top 7 ranks. It seems unlikely that having more dominating ranks would ever make you less likely to win, so scenario 2 should be better for player A than scenario 1.

having a young child is like having a friend on a serious "I NEED to talk to someone about my new hobby" bender, but the hobby is human existence

And in case you missed my own post about how Grokipedia is error-prone right-wing "AI"-babble:

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a...

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

like, for example, just say political transphobia isn't a deal breaker for you instead of whining about purity tests

For an odd-length sequence like this, middle * length.

For an even+length one, (left-middle + right-middle) * length / 2.

No one "will" be anything, because this isn't a prescription! It's a work of imagination. And it's obviously too short to be a full exploration of a realistic society. But you seem quite convinced based on a few hundred words of short fiction that the author is an evil person. Wild.

Plenty of human rituals have a moment where a choice is offered, but in practice the choice is only ever made one way. Does the "do you take this person to be your lawfully wedded spouse" in a marriage ritual indicate a desire for people to be left at the altar?

Whereas you seem to be saying that _not_ depicting execution and _not_ describing it as good indicate a desire for executions

You said the story implies "a yearning ror public execution and a belief that they would be good". In the story no executions happen and the story ends by saying - I'm paraphrasing - of course they never would.