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“Just as with modern laws of warfare, if you are captured, killing a guard in an attempt to escape can and often is punished as murder”

Not true. A POW remains a soldier. If he can kill a guard, or a platoon of them, and then escape, it’s certainly NOT against the law of war.

Next, there is no such thing as VOLUNTARY slavery. That is a civil contract, the basis of freedom is the ability to enter into contracts.

Slavery is only about force. Toil AGAINST your will. And that can always be met with all the resistance it takes to end it.

As for your comments on POWs, you are incorrect. The Geneva convention (Article 93) restricts administrative punishment to only those attempts and act that bring no harm. Acts during an escape that do bring harm as in threaten, endanger or compromise life and limb are allowed to be prosecuted. If you attempt an escape, and in that attempt you kill a guard, the recapturing authority has the legal right to try you under their laws for murder.
In fact, if you kill a fellow prisoner who is cooperating with the enemy, you can be also executed. In fact, the US Military did exactly that. Few people know that there are German POWs who were executed for crimes at Ft Leavenworth.
http://www.basehorinfo.com/news/2008/may/28/wwii_german_pows_buried_fort_leavenworth

Article 93-
In conformity with the principle stated in Article 83, offences committed by prisoners of war with the sole intention of facilitating their escape and which do not entail any violence against life or limb, such as offences against public property, theft without intention of self-enrichment, the drawing up or use of false papers, the wearing of civilian clothing, shall occasion disciplinary punishment only.

As for your assertion that there is not any form of voluntary slavery - I disagree. If one understands that they are surrendering their rights and will be required to perform work or service and agree to that condition, they have become a slave.

At question is "inalienable" - can a person be separated from their rights. I contend that as long as the person is willing to be separated and give the control of those rights to others, then they are in a state of VOLUNTARY slavery. Likewise, under our constitution and laws, once a person wishes to reclaim and reassert those rights, they stop being a voluntary slave/servant.