Ethics of Sampling Human Sounds

I have a serious question about the ethics of sampling. I'm not concerned about the legality, as in this instance I am not concerned about the money. I was on the train a couple of days ago and sitting in front of me was a low-functioning autistic guy. He's making noises throughout the whole train ride. However, some of his noises sounded very interesting melodically, and some of them sounded like good adlibs. I pulled out my phone and secretly recorded his "noises" (I don't know the politically correct term). Anyway, as I'm listening to them they sound really dope. Is it ethical for me to sample a low-functioning autistic person?

A Reddit post describes someone secretly recording an autistic passenger’s vocal noises on a train because they sound musically interesting and could work as hip-hop samples. The punchline is the absurdly exploitative ethical question: the writer is worried about sampling the person’s sounds, but frames the situation like a serious music-production dilemma. It is shared as an offensive, darkly absurd reaction to questionable artistic or sampling decisions.

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