I’ve never understood this. I have a condition with my feet that means i pretty much walk on bruises everday of my life. In medieval days they flogged people’s feet to torture them with a condition I deal with every day.

There are days I take off my shoes and sob.

I would never do that. I keep my shoes on in public.

The bottom of this person’s feet are not purple like mine are. What’s their excuse? Put your shoes back on.

I’ve had that thought about animals.

Wild animals always run away when I’m walking thru the woods which is kind of a bummer.

However I remember that every deer that approached a human in the past was killed and eaten. Every animal that didn’t run away was eaten or domesticated.

The ones that ran away survived and had more offspring