#tellusatoday: Your thoughts on N.Y. subway death photo

We asked our followers on Twitter what they thought of the man who took a photo of a victim about to be hit by a subway train in New York City. Comments are from Twitter and Facebook:

This was sensationalism by both the photographer and the New York Post. They both should agree to give profits to a trust fund for the surviving family members.

-- @tjtarheel

Many people ran away. At least this guy kept taking pictures, which is more than other people did. Photos can be used to get justice in court.

-- @JDRWindreader

The New York mayor is more concerned with banning big soda than placing barricades in subways.

-- James VanTrees

There is a definite difference between what is legally wrong and what is morally wrong.

I just hope the photographer and everyone else who profited from the publishing of this cover can sleep at night, knowing the anguish that they caused this man's family, not only by not moving a single finger to help him (other than clicking the shutter to signal the train, a claim I don't believe for a second) but also by making a spectacle of his death. This is a whole new level of insensitivity.

-- Beena Pea

Considering MTA trains do not pull into the station at full speed, I would have helped him and at worst we both would have been injured. I'm a human first before I am a photographer, and my instinct is always humanity.

-- @ShameOnYouu

A journalist's job is to capture news. Rush to help? Not if the madman who pushed him was approaching.

-- @SixStringJosh

I am a photographer and with all honesty, I can't imagine making a profit off someone's death.

-- @TNMelissa

People are blasting the photographer? He has stated there was no way to reach the victim in time. It's so easy for people who were not there to get on their high horse.

-- David Seo

I would have helped the man out of the tracks. What was the photographer thinking about? Money is not worth a life.

-- @MontserratCovad