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Not demanding, asking. Declining a call is always an option.
So why call in the first place? And how will I ever know what the call was about? Unless you text, of course, so why not just do that in the first place?
You may not intent for it to be a demand, but unless you have your phone on silent, it will keep ringing and making noise until you do something about it. It demands an action, and tries to get your attention as much as possible.
Which is why it's designated to emergencies. This makes calling more useful as well, because now you know calls are more important, and can actually treat them with more urgency. Otherwise you're just gonna end up ignoring what may be an actual emergency, because you treat every phone call the same.
You have a psychological problem. You in therapy I hope?
Can you elaborate on why you think this is a psychological problem?
I could but I honestly don't want to, it would take time and be a long post. If you really are in therapy you can talk with your therapist about the issue. But so I won't let you go empty handed the simplest point: it's a phone, it's there to primarily make calls. Yes, in the last decade it finally got access to the internet; something I wished for for at least 20 years, but nevertheless, it's a phone. It exists to make phone calls. If that's really a big problem for you it's not the phones problem, it's not the caller's problem, it's your problem.