Response to someone's claim that "we're all slaves"

It looks here as if "we're all slaves" has been turned into a political statement. But that's not how I read the OP. I never exactly looked at it as "we're all slaves", I always looked at it like "we're all in a war". I mean, we aim to live, we want to live. One of our most basic prsmptions is life=good, death=bad. We believe that life is natural, that death is an unnatural external force which we shouldn't count on - it's something we don't comprehend, and we do so much to avoid it. But yet, it happens to anyone, but no-one is "doing" it (obviously some people are killed by others but you get my point, other people didn't make them mortal in the same sense). So it's a defining part of our nature that we die, but yet we've externalised it, turned it into an enemy, something which happens to us rather than something we do. So, psychologically it's like a war, an enemy in the hills swooping down and taking our wives, children, parents, friends, and eventually us. Like a war, it's dreaded influence permeates everything, and yet lke an onoing war, it's been normalised, we try to get on with life ignoring it. We associate war with death and poor health, this is why we hate war, so surely when this happens to people without a war, the effect is the same as a war? A war just steps up the intensity.

But again, "slave" and "war" these are just words which invite comparisons for something all encompassing for us) with something specific - like comparing being a car to being a Mini. We aren't salves or in a war, slavery is just one manifestation of unfreedom, war is just one manifestation of death. What we are is human. Slave is just a definiton for one kind of human. Applying it to all humans devalues the word. This doesn't mean all or any humans are "free".