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It's called the RIGHT hand for a reason
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You can thank the Romans’ adoption of the Bible for that stigma.
In Latin, sinestra means on the left side. Left handed people were referred to as sinister. After the appearance of Eve on Adam’s left side in accounts of Genesis, the Christian tradition finds instances of the left side being pinned to immorality. As a result, some time during the Latin Classical Era the definition shifted to its current meaning of evil.
There's also less left-handed people so they're easier to pick on, and people in the past really delighted on being assholes
we're better at swordfighting though.
They still do. But they used to to.