| | Jay, maybe you should define what you think "strict" means.
My dictionary says "a strict interpretation of the law PRECISE, exact, literal, faithful, accurate, rigourous, careful, meticulous, pedantic, ANTONYM loose, imprecise."
Your objection to the "extreme" wording of the question makes me think your thinking is mushy. I wonder if maybe you take the attitude that to be strict is to be mean, and so to be extremely "PRECISE, exact, literal, faithful, accurate, etc.," is to be, say, hateful or fascist? Confusing exactness with cruelty, as if they were points on the same spectrum, is common among progessive eductaors and liberal "child-welfare advocates." Is that the notion of strictness whose potential extremity bothers you?
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