There are two teshuvos from Reb Moshe where he writes that it is only allowed “bsha’as hadchak”. One was written to a Yeshiva where he clearly explains that he is being machmir because it is the responsibility of a Yeshiva to teach self-sacrifice for chumros. The other was written to a city where the minhag for many years had been to be machmir, and because many people dropped the minhag the local Cholov Yisroel dairy was in danger of closing. In the teshuvos where he addresses the general concept he only writes that a “ba’al nefesh” should be machmir, which anyone knowledgeable Halacha knows means something totally different than mutar only “bsha’as hadchak”.
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