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As a devil's advocate:

Perhaps 'nightlife' is just boring without drinking, which makes me wonder if it's worth at all if it's no fun without drinking. Perhaps it's just a way to moderate drinking, then?

Anesthesia is generally used to help with pain, not improve the quality of an experience.

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Nightlife is when you are awake but the sun is down and all of the people around you don't mind. There is sometimes lots of alcohol, yes, but also music and conversation and hopefully a convivial atmosphere. I recommend it. No anesthesia necessary for most people.

This definition of 'nightlife' is much better than the parents as implicitly as a venue that requires alcoholol to be fun.

I'd say that sober nightlife is boring, if everyone else is drinking heavily. If the group is generally not drunk, it's fine.

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