ELI5-Why did Arabic and Hebrew develop as a right-to-left written script when the majority of people of right handed?

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To add to the question most religions of the time saw the left hand as a bad thing, so I’m assuming everyone regardless of dominance used their right hand. Also, wouldn’t the writing from right-to-left cause smudge errors in the script similar to how lefties get the “grey palm” when writing?

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It’s also been suggested that reading left to right developed from tall thin monuments used as a sundial. (*like the Washington monument)

In Europe and the middleast (*above the equator), the suns shadow moves left to right.

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