If one is taller, it is easier to throw a basketball into the basket. If one is bigger, it is harder for an opposing football player to knock you over.
I wouldn’t call it an “eternal question” except possibly in the domain of phrases that get repeated with very little thought having been given to them beforehand.
Or at least, written in that 3-word form without properly framing the question, so the answers end up being people who are basically just adding the first pieces of context that occur to them.