No.
Slaves lack the ability to choose anything, other than death, over slavery.
Luis, you seem obsessively pre-occupied with the
strict interpretation of the word "slave". Apparently, no one's definition but yours is acceptable. Since you insist on being pedantic about it, I thought I would present a dictionary meaning of the word:
World English Dictionary
slave (sleɪv)
— n
1. a person legally owned by another and having no freedom of action or right to property
2. a person who is forced to work for another against his will
3. a person under the domination of another person or some habit or influence: a slave to television
4. a person who works in harsh conditions for low pay
5. a. a device that is controlled by or that duplicates the action of another similar device (the master device)
b. ( as modifier ): slave cylinder
As you can see, the definition of "slave" is not as narrowly defined as you keep telling us it is. From the
dictionary meaning, a person can be a "slave" to heroin - something in which he HAS A CHOICE. There are many forms of slavery - not all of them involve a person being shackled and unable to move. Even on the plantation - slaves made attempts to escape while they worked the fields - or in the dark of night - ALWAYS with the threat of beating or death if they were caught and returned. But many slaves still managed to escape - the city I live in has a house that was used for the "underground tunnel" that slaves escaped through to the north and to freedom.
I think there are some that would agree with me - that this microscopic attention paid to what a slave can or cannot be - and that everyone that disagrees with you is just flat out wrong on the subject has gone on TOO LONG. Let's end it. OK? Step away from the keyboard - take a walk or something. Yes, I'll be the one to say it - if I had a choice to be a "real" slave in the sense of a black on the plantation - or a "virtual" slave trapped on welfare ............................ I would pick the virtual slave because I could free myself from that much, much easier. Being a virtual slave is NO comparison to the other kind - I don't think anyone has a disagreement on that.