Choppy: That’s precisely my point. When you take Kashrus too far, it’s not Kashrus anymore. When you take Shabbos too far, it’s not Shabbos anymore. Just like when you take Lashon Hara too far, you’re not even within the parameters of Lashon Hara anymore. Halachah gives us parameters. And some Shittos are more Meikil and some are more Machmir. In some concepts, we look for the Mekilin. In some, we look for the Machmirim. In most, normative Halachah is somewhere in the middle. But when you completely leave the parameters then you are not even in the Parsha of that Halachah anymore. So yes, it’s possible too go overboard on any concept, either so far Lekula that you are no longer within the parameters of the Halachah or so far L’chumra.
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