Neville,
You’re right, i might have meant other commenters while replying to you.
Anyway, if one reads the teshuvos they can see the mechanism rav moshe works with and the factors he bases his issur or heter on. Therefore, if one sees a certain situation matches any given factors they can issue a ruling on that basis. It doesn’t make a difference what Rav Moshe paskened then assur for such and such city, if the factors known to us match KGH. People just can’t seem to get this through their head.
Just as a possible example: (please don’t focus on the details of this case, just the concept i’m trying to share) say, a woman asks a rav about a chicken and he paskens trayf. Now, say this chicken falls into a pot that has shishim, and her husband tells her, okay, we can now consume the whole pot. So she insists, what do you mean?! The rav clearly said its trayf! What’s the difference WHERE it fell in! Well, anyone can see that it’s stupid to say such a thing, for the rav only paskened based on the factors he knew, namely, that the chicken is standing alone. However, after it gets mixed into taaruves, if she would ask him, he may be matir based on the current factors.
Same for Brooklyn eruv and Rav Moshe.
If anybody out there still can’t wrap their heads around this then it’s just too bad.
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