The Facebook page, along with a website of the same name, hopes to promote barefooting” in all public domains. Yes, this includes spaces like offices, restaurants, grocery stores, parks, sidewalks — you name it.

“Our goal is to educate businesses, corporate America, and society that in many cases shoes are not necessary and can have negative effects on your health,” the group’s Minneapolis-based regional director, Nick Deutschmann, told BuzzFeed News.Members call it an activist organization, and one of their big points is that there are no direct laws in the US banning being barefoot. (There are some parameters — but we’ll get there.)This gave them their name, “Barefoot Is Legal.”

“I thought I was the only one that had an interest in living barefoot,” Deutschmann, 44, said when he was initially brought into the group. At the time, there were only a handful of passionate members.