If you are avoiding a person that swears and shouts a lot and is generally bad, then you're not really avoiding the appearance of evil. You're just avoiding evil. The appearance for me is perception, but if that perception is proved, it is no longer perception but fact.
So if that isn't the appearance, then there must be only one other thing, and that is being "associated" with evil, or avoiding yourself appearing as evil. So, taking care to choose your friends wisely.
I think from my story and my realisation, this is perhaps good advice. The idea of me going to bar is purely to socialise. I do enjoy beer, but that often comes a second as demonstrated last night when I basically only drank coke. I was driving - but I could have caught a taxi home, but I decided to do something different. And you know what, I thought it wasn't that bad.
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