This had better not pass

so i just skimmed through this last page... and is linus trying to bring classical conditioning into this debate? 

I forget the question - try me again and I'll try to answer.

:)

Jung was not a behaviorist.

But you cannot extrapolate from Pavlov's dog or the bunnies to "it is easy to teach a kid to use his off hand.  Skinner would be most upset if you tried that stretch.

There is no biological inhibition against being afraid of bunnies - there is a biological prediliction in favor of one hand.

And even if there weren't - it would violate every scientific principle to casually extrapolate like that.

Linus wrote: You can EASILY train a kid from birth to use their left hand and make them not use the right so they aren't ambidextrous.

Easily, you say?

I daresay you have never tried training a kid from birth to do anything, and challenge you to find a single study to support your claim.

But yes, it is possible to learn to use your off hand.

But this is also irrelevant.  Left-handedness is the result of a brain abnormality that leads to a strengthened right hemisphere.  Most people are predominantly left hemisphere oriented.

You might be able to learn to use your other hand, but you will remain left/right handed.  It is not a learned characteristic, but a physiological feature of the brain caused by hormone shifts in utero.