hi,
we can do so many things with our hands,
the positive,
we greet by shaking hands,we gesture,create,using them as tools,comfort,caress etc
negative,
we can hurt,damage,violate & of course steal things,
the fact that amputation has show up ,especially of the hand,suggests to me ,loss of one of the above positive abilities,
cutting off a hand was also a punishment in medieval times for theft,has anything been stolen ? ,
just my own thoughts.
mikey