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Please explain why Lego figurines have no hands

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Re: Please explain why Lego figurines have no hands

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please explain why lego figurines have no hands

For my explanation I take a further definition of hand and handedness, maybe you find it compelling.

They have no hands because a hand has chirality, from the Greek word for hand. This means that it's mirror image can not be overlayed or superimposed with the original object and there is a distinction between left and right hand. The hand of a Lego figurine lacks this very specific property.