Mythri Jayaraman

Mythri is an attorney with the Defender Association of Philadelphia. She has worked as a public defender for 15 years and has also worked on justice and economic development projects in the international sphere in Peru, the West Bank, and Tunisia.

The moral hazards of conflating what is useful with what is right

By: Mythri Jayaraman

To suggest that we should only seek to understand perpetrators if it’s “useful” is contrary to the universality of human dignity.