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Now on top of annoying them, now you're dictating their phone settings too? What if they don't want to stop notifications? What if they don't know how to do it? What if they want to still get one from the child or partner or friend who's travelling if anything happens to them? Should they turn it on and off for your convenience, lest you have to forego sending a non-essential text at night?
I'm not dictating anything. You don't want notifications? Great! You can disable them. You want notifications only between these sets of timespans? No problem! Oh you want blacklist/whitelist certain groups/people? Can do! The receiver has full agency of when they receive notifications and of whom. In fact a person NOT sending a message and keeping it stored later is, in fact, taking away agency of the receiver. The…
But you're still sending the message, regardless of if they want it or not, and even if obviously they might not have done those things, not know how to do those things, or simply not want to have to do those things, but still not want to have to get some message at night.
Sorry, but you're intruding with your late nightn message. And that's irrelevant to what they have or haven't set on their phone.
>In fact a person NOT sending a message and keeping it stored later is, in fact, taking away agency of the receiver. The sender assumes he knows better then the receivers.
It's not about agency, it's about courtesy.