I'd expect there are more cultures and households out there
than not that punish any form of interruption to the point where its members would see it not just as confrontation but as a sin. To take a view that casts these people as standoffish is dismissive.
I am not calling these people standoffish. I am showing the previous commenter (by constructing an opposite dismissal) that such judgments are misplaced.
From the civility side, interrupting is at best confrontational but more likely a social sin. From the interruption side, failing to interrupt is standoffish. The reaction of each side to the other is unbalanced, but the severity of civility's backlash is easy to understand.
