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Vs debators love fiction that is grand and epic, featuring characters whose actions have great significance, and are usually supernatural in some way, or effectively supernatural through fictional superscience. 'Supernatural' literally means 'above nature', and when you combine characters whose powers are beyond nature, and the fact that the writers and readers want them and their actions to be cosmically significant, then justifications for universal levels of power, and the speed to cross cosmic distances, tend to start cropping up out of the weeds quite naturally.