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Kristine M. Conner
University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
Last Modified: November 1, 2001
On August 21st and 22nd, about 60 American and 400 Japanese women and men made the arduous climb to the summit of Mt. Fujiyama in Japan to promote awareness about breast cancer, raise funds for research, and inspire hope in people who are (or will be) affected by this disease. Mt. Fuji was the third major "Climb Against the Odds" organized by the San Francisco-based Breast Cancer Fund, a nonprofit organization founded in 1992 to accelerate breast cancer research while also promoting awareness.
In early 1995, The Fund organized 17 breast cancer survivors for a summit attempt on Argentina's Aconcagua (23,000 feet), the highest peak outside of the Himalayas. Over three years later, in June 1998, five breast cancer survivors teamed up with seven young women determined to beat the odds of breast cancer to climb Alaska's Mt. McKinley (20,300 feet). A full-length film of the McKinley journey is being broadcast this fall on public television in the U.S. and abroad.
The group for Mt. Fuji 2000 was the largest to date. In addition to breast cancer survivors, whose ages ranged from the late 20s to late 60s, the group included friends and family members of women affected by the disease, physicians and health care professionals, and other concerned individuals. These 60 climbers were accompanied by 27 other Americans who went along to offer their support.
For Linda Rinaldi of Palmyra, New Jersey, reaching the summit of Mt. Fuji was a life-changing experience -- as was her diagnosis with stage II breast cancer 28 months ago, in the spring of 1998, thanks to a routine mammogram. Already juggling a full schedule at work (she is a busy attorney with the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice) and home (as a wife and mother of two young sons), Rinaldi was forced to find a way to incorporate breast cancer into her life as well. Her answer came through The Breast Cancer Fund.
A few months after finishing treatment in early 1999, Rinaldi saw an ad in MAMM magazine for The Fund's "Hike for Healing" event in the Wind River Range in Wyoming. While she had never really hiked or backpacked, and had camped "maybe once or twice twenty years ago," the thought of getting away from it all in the wilderness appealed to her. She says she was feeling lost, out of sorts, and unsure about what would come next. The Hike reinvigorated her, not only because of the physical challenges, but because of her sense of connection with the other breast cancer survivors who were climbing -- and the fact that, as she puts it, she was "getting the metaphors" of mountain climbing and breast cancer. Rinaldi lamented to the other participants that The Breast Cancer Fund did not have an East coast presence. And while she knew that the Mt. Fuji climb had been planned, she says it never crossed her mind that she could participate.
But then she got a call from Andrea Martin, founder and director of The Fund, inviting her to be part of the team. She says she objected at first: "I work! I have kids!" Martin's reply? "We all work. We all have kids." Martin mailed Rinaldi a packet of information that she found "irresistible." Thus began the intense process of preparing for the climb -- she trained four days per week at 5:30 in the morning -- and raising $5,000 to cover her expenses. To date, she has raised about $15,000 through her own efforts at her workplace, at her gym, and at community events.
Just three weeks after she summited, Rinaldi spoke with OncoLink about the climb itself, the parallels she noticed between climbing and the challenge of dealing with cancer, and the motivation she feels to keep talking about her experiences with breast cancer.
I'd like to start at the culmination of your climb and work backwards. Can you recreate for me the moment at which you reached the top of Mt. Fuji? What were you seeing, what were you thinking, what were you feeling?
When I summited, it was a little bit after eight in the morning, and I was fourth from the end. It was a completely emotionally overwhelming experience. First of all, there were a lot of people there from the American team to greet me. There were these Japanese gates -- I think they're called toriis -- right at the summit, so in order to officially summit you go through the gate. And there were Japanese climbers holding American flags and Japanese flags on either side of the gate. I was so physically exhausted and so emotionally overcome that all I could really do was cry! The woman who summited with me raised my hand and said, "Celebrate!" but I just couldn't believe I had done it! Doing anything else would have been unacceptable for me, but still I couldn't believe I was really there.
There was somebody up there playing an accordion, so there was music, there were press and photographers and a camera crew, and there were bells ringing in the wind. One of the traditions of climbing Mt. Fuji is that you get a climbing stick that you can have stamped at every station to prove that you were there. On this stick are bells and so when you get up to the summit, you take the bells and say a prayer and then leave them there on a kind of shrine. So there are just bells everywhere.
The sun was out, it was a beautiful day . . . it's really hard to explain how everyone was feeling in words, except to say that everyone was elated at that particular moment -- elated, exhausted, and in awe. We were completely above the clouds, you couldn't see anything below -- none of the towns or villages. The Japanese climbers kept telling us that you can very rarely see the summit or see off the summit because it is usually engulfed in clouds. For us, it was like the clouds had just parted. It was perfectly clear, the sky was as blue as could be, and you couldn't see below the clouds but you could see the cloud formations all around us. It was just unbelievable, really, really awesome.
Are there any other visual impressions that stand out as you look back on the actual climb?
The Japanese team had on these very colorful jackets. They were all yellow, and hot pink, and blue, and lime green. The Breast Cancer Fund also has a prayer flag tribute program so we all carried prayer flags up the mountain. They are to honor or remember people who have faced breast cancer. From my vantage point, because I was often so far behind the group -- and especially the Japanese, who climb quickly -- I could see this steady stream of brightly colored jackets that were so reminiscent to me of the prayer flags. It was like watching a stream of prayer flags go up the mountain. It was really very beautiful and it really grounded me in the reality of why I was there. It was one thing to summit and hear the cheering and hear the accordion, but we were there for a much more serious purpose.
For me it was a personal journey and a triumph over some of the side effects of chemotherapy, one of which was depression and another big one was not being able to walk for a couple days. One of the side effects of Taxol is bone and joint pain, and with my first Taxol treatment, the pain was excruciating. It really manifested itself in the balls of my feet, and my ankles and my knees. I couldn't put any weight on my feet at all for about four days. And that was exactly two years to the week -- August 20th to 24th, 1998 -- and it was August 22nd, 2000, that I was climbing Mt. Fuji. So for me it was a real personal triumph over that particular side effect.
But to see those jackets reminding me of those prayer flags . . . again, it grounded me in the serious purpose of why we were there, which was to fight breast cancer, not only for myself, but for those people who can't -- who don't have a voice anymore, those who have lost the battle. And for those who haven't started battling yet . . . the hundred of thousands who are going to in the near future.
People look at me and say, "I can't believe you did that. No matter what I faced, I wouldn't climb a mountain." And to me it's just a natural progression of how I have to continue to fight.
You mentioned that you experienced depression after treatment, and I noticed that you emphasized this in some of the other newspaper articles written about you. Can you talk a little more about that and why you feel the need to speak up about it?
I finished treatment in January 1999. And the further I got away from treatment the worse I was feeling, physically and emotionally. I had this overwhelming desire to be by myself -- this was around March, April. I just was barely functioning at home and work. I just wanted to be alone, I cried all the time, I was so fatigued, I didn't know what was wrong with me. I had worked all during chemotherapy and radiation, I took care of my kids, I shopped, I cooked. And here it was over, and I would get up in the morning and take a shower for work, and then need a nap. I would drive from Palmyra to Trenton and be completely exhausted by the time I got there. I had no idea what was wrong with me. I was thinking, "It's over, move on." But I had no idea what was happening and finally I started feeling sorry for myself.
When I saw the ad in MAMM magazine about The Breast Cancer Fund's Hike for Healing in Wyoming, all I could think about was being in the wilderness by myself. Truthfully, I was going to be with a group of other breast cancer survivors, and a couple of guides, but in terms of my reality, I just felt like I needed to be alone, to run away. And what better place to run away to? . . .
Emotional recovery is something I want to focus on more. There's little to nothing written about it. [Rinaldi's physician eventually prescribed medication for her depression, which helped to jumpstart her recovery.]
So the Hike for Healing acquainted you with The Breast Cancer Fund. What did you think as you learned more about the organization? And did you begin to see the connections between mountain climbing and surviving breast cancer?
I got a copy of the Climb Against the Odds videotape, which was about the five breast cancer survivors who climbed Mt. McKinley. And that really hit close to home for me. When those women were climbing Mt. McKinley in 1998, I was losing my hair, I was going through my first and second chemo treatments. I really had the sense that the women were there for me, fighting for me. And they became our guides for the Mt. Fuji trip.
When I was in chemotherapy, if anyone had told me I would have been climbing mountains in two years, I would have told them they were crazy. Because that was the furthest thing from my mind. But for me it's been a way to bring myself closer to emotional healing as well as physical healing. I trained very hard to climb Mt. Fuji. I was at the gym at 5:30 in the morning four days a week, and that's not something I think I would have done "just because." But I had a goal.
I tend to be a long-range planner. I am very organized, I plan my life, the nature of my job is to be organized and to plan far ahead. I tend to look at the big picture. I found with breast cancer that you can't be a long-range planner. You can't take the whole experience all at once, because it's too overwhelming, too self-defeating. When they told me I had six months of chemotherapy to face, I fell apart. The only way I was able to handle it, accept it, and get past it was to take one treatment at a time. I literally wore blinders, living my life just three weeks at a time. And I would break time down even further. I would have chemo on Thursday, so it was like, "Just get through this weekend first." And then I would gradually start to feel better on Monday, Tuesday, then Wednesday -- I had to get through those days first. I would look forward to the next weekend, the following week, and the third weekend, when I would try to do some kind of activity with my kids. But I wouldn't start looking to the next treatment until that week came, because it was just too much to know that I would have these chemicals pumped into me again and have to go through the cycle again . . . When you look at it one day at a time, it becomes more manageable.
It was the same thing with climbing Mt. Fuji. When you stand looking at the summit, it looks like it's close, because it's right there in front of you, but you know in reality it's far away -- hours and hours away. And you can't just stand there and look up and say, "I want to be there." You have to focus on one step at a time, one foot in front of the other, one breath after the other, hydrate, concentrate. That way it makes the overwhelming more manageable; it gives it to you in smaller pieces.
There are stations on Mt. Fuji, and above the eighth station, it gets very steep and there are a lot of volcanic rocks. Because of the terrain, it would be too difficult to walk straight up. So there are switchbacks, and all you had to do was think about getting to the next one and then taking a break. It doesn't matter that there are 35 more in front of you. It makes the climb a little longer, but it makes it more doable.
Did you encounter any unexpected challenges or setbacks during the climb, and if so, what were they and how did they impact your overall experience?
Well, I encountered what I thought was a setback, but it actually turned out be to a gift -- which actually is sort of what cancer has turned out to be for me. It had been our goal to make it to the eighth station by the end of the first day. The Japanese team had told our guide that wherever we were at 4:30 in the afternoon was where we had to stay. It gets dark at about 6:30, and the people who run the huts serve dinner and have to prepare for the night. At 4:20, I was at the seventh station. My legs were killing me, and I knew there was no way I would make it to the eighth station, which was at least an hour-and-a-half away . . .
The guides asked me to stay at the seventh station, and I was really upset. I was afraid I wasn't going to summit, that I had fallen so far behind . . . you know, here I was at least an hour-and-a-half behind where I was supposed to be. I wanted to be with my team. I didn't know who would be with me at the seventh station. But then a woman who worked at The Breast Cancer Fund appeared and said she was going to stay. I felt better that someone else was in my situation. But then as it turned out, there were many people a lot lower than I was, and I was settled in the hut when they came up. There were about eight of us Americans at the station for the night.
So we left the next morning at 3:20, and we were at the eighth station by 4:30. So we actually had done better than we had anticipated, because we did in an hour and ten minutes what should have taken at least an hour and thirty minutes. So for me, that was really a triumph, because I realized my anxiety was for nothing. I had allowed myself time to acclimate myself to the altitude, and give my legs a rest, and I actually did the hardest part of the climb more quickly than the lower parts. I didn't realize that it was the hardest part of the climb until I was on the way down, when we got back to the eighth station after we had summited. We stopped to rest and the guides were saying, "Come on, we have to get going, this is the hardest part of the climb," meaning between the seventh and eighth stations. That was surprising to me because it was the easiest part of the climb for me coming up! I couldn't believe how treacherous it was -- there were steep inclines, crevices, and a rope for support. Well, my group hadn't seen how difficult it was on the way up; it was dark! So I guess there is some truth to the old adage, "Ignorance is bliss!" We didn't know what we were actually facing, but we were rested, our minds were rested, our legs were rested, our bodies were rested. So in the end, it worked out really well . . . I think if I had pushed myself to get up to the eight station that day, I would have experienced altitude sickness like a lot of the other climbers did.
So, what I thought be a setback really turned out to be a gift. You have to listen to your body, you can't ignore it. Life is too fragile . . . you can't take chances. And there are a lot of metaphors even in that. You can't ignore your health, you can't say, "I'm not going to get a mammogram, breast cancer only happens to other people." You can't feel a lump and say, "Oh, we don't have breast cancer in our family, it's probably nothing, I'll just wait until my gynecology appointment next year." You can't take chances with your health because you only get one shot at it.
As you look back, do you see other "metaphors" that connect your experiences as a patient with those you had as a climber?
Yes, and I think they're going to be coming to me for a very long time.
The Japanese team members were at each station, cheering us on, knowing that we were kind of struggling. You could hear them even when you were about 20 minutes away from the station. As you got up closer, you could see that they were waving flags, they had water for you, and ice-cold water balloons that they would put on your neck and your forehead. They would have a seat cleared for you so you could sit down.
There were times I wanted to give up, even though I could hear them cheering for me. I knew that it was still at least 20 minutes away. And that would remind me of being so close to the finish of chemotherapy, like when I got up to treatments 6 and 7, I didn't want it anymore. I didn't want to feel so sick. But I could see the end, and you know that the only way to get to the end is to continue. You have to continue, you can't give up. No matter how close the summit seemed, or no matter how close the next station seemed, you couldn't just sit down. You just had to keep steady progress and concentrate on your steps -- just like when I got up to chemo number 6 and chemo number 7.
You know, it was kind of ironic, actually. I didn't want any more chemo, but I started to get nervous when it was almost over. My largest fighting tool was in a sense going to be taken away from me, and I had to go on to the next thing, which was radiation. As much as I didn't want anymore, I didn't want to stop.
It was the same thing getting to those stations on Mt. Fuji, and getting to the summit. Getting closer to the summit was the ultimate. I had about six more switchbacks to go, and it was really, really steep. I could actually see the people at the summit. I could see them around the bend, but I knew it was going to be so God-awful to get there . . . In both cases, I knew that it was going to take every ounce of energy and concentration I had to get there.
When I did get there, it was overwhelming. On the summit, I just broke down; I had an intense emotional moment. I did the same thing at the end of chemo. I was just so relieved that it was over -- and scared at the same time. I wasn't so much scared when I got to the summit -- except now that I am home, I have this sense of "What's next?" It's kind of reminiscent of ending chemo and then starting radiation; I was wondering, "What's the next challenge going to be?"
But this is a good "What's next?" because I have to think about what mountain I am going to take on next. I'm not done climbing. I feel that as long as women are developing breast cancer at the rate they are developing it, I still have to climb mountains, and raise funds and awareness. I still want to let women know that you can live with breast cancer. You can live a quality productive life as long as you are informed, and listen, and take charge of your health . . . Yes, chemotherapy is awful, and radiation is intense, but it can work as long as breast cancer is detected early.
In a way for me, cancer has been a gift. I thought that was ludicrous when I started treatment and I would read articles with women saying it was a gift and that they wouldn't go back. I thought they had lost their minds for sure. But 28 months after being diagnosed, I can say that breast cancer was a gift. And if you can get through to the other side with early detection and positive prognosis, I think it is a gift. You appreciate life, you appreciate every single day, you appreciate your family and friends, you know the true meaning of support and friendship. And there's nothing wrong with letting people help you. I had to give in an let people help me. Now I come out in the morning and look at leaves on the trees and say, "Look at that green," or I marvel at the color of flowers, and people look at me like I'm crazy! You just have a finer appreciation for everything around you.
Except for the fact that breast cancer threatens my very existence as a person on this earth, I wouldn't change it for the world, I really wouldn't! It has been something of a gift. I have met amazing people -- not only through the Breast Cancer Fund, but a whole group of professionals. It was like they were hand-picked to be oncology nurses and radiology technicians.
Talking is the only way to educate people. I have found a new voice, a new strength in myself. I am learning new things about myself every day. It started out as what I called my living nightmare, and it has turned into my cancer gift.
What kinds of insights do you think the group gained from interacting with people of another country and culture who are also dealing with the challenge of breast cancer?
There were a lot of Japanese breast cancer survivors and patients climbing with us, and apparently the ripple effect is still happening there. I would say that Japanese women are probably a decade behind where we are in terms of talking about health issues. You know, there haven't been support groups available for them. In fact, there was a time not too long ago that the patient would not even be told about the diagnosis. So they were just so grateful to meet us, to hear that we were productive members of our society talking about breast cancer and being in the news media -- coming out of the closet, so to speak. We knew what was going on with our diagnosis, we had a say in our treatment plan. They were just in awe of that.
I think you could say that they women who participated were on the cutting edge of activism in Japanese culture as far as talking goes. They aren't completely embraced by people in that society, but certainly they are embraced by the women there. Their questions really reflected the need for so many answers. They had so many of the same questions we do: How do we make sure we get our annual mammograms? How do we know our mammograms are being read correctly? What is lymphedema, have you heard of this? My arm has swelled up, and what's causing it, how do I make it better? and so on.
The issues are the same, but they are just at the beginning of being able to speak out and get the answers they need. So they were just so delighted we were there. We got a lot of coverage by the Japanese press -- media, newspapers, television. One climber was on a Japanese talk show. To have the climb publicized was such a breakthrough for them. It can only get better, because they have got quite a lot of women who are committed to speaking out, and now they have their American sisters who will help them speak out. They know we have not only been there, but we will continue to be in partnership with them . . .
In fact, there was a study done by Japanese researchers that was recently reported on ReutersHealth, which found that providing information and support to Japanese women with breast cancer does appear to help them cope with their illness. So this is all new to them.
You said that there are more mountains left for you to climb. Do you have a plan for what comes next?
In terms of a "big mountain," I am not sure which one it will be. But I do have a plan for "next" -- it's just a little less arduous and something I would like to get family and community involved in. I'm organizing a "Peak Hike" in New Jersey for October 2001. In between its major expeditions, The Breast Cancer Fund does peak hikes -- they're day hikes . . . there's an annual one in California, there was one in Crested Butte, Colorado, when we were in Japan, there have been two on in New Hampshire on Mount Washington . . .
Last fall, I told Andrea Martin I thought we needed to have a peak hike in New Jersey. We have a high incidence of cancer and breast cancer here, and on the East coast we have a huge market to draw from: New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, Delaware. And there are a lot of people I know who will appreciate the metaphors of climbing and breast cancer . . .
We don't have a Mt. Fuji or a Mt. Washington, but we have High Point. It's not really high, but it's not the destination that counts, it's the journey. And it's a journey that can involve families and young children, because it's not really an arduous climb. You can have older people, people in treatment -- the overall goal is to raise awareness and come together in the community to provide support and inspiration . . .
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is always a good time to do something, and it's also a beautiful time of the year and to appreciate the leaves and the change. And this will highlight the change that cancer brings into our lives as well.
Again, I've learned that I need to have short-term goals. A year is a little bit away, but it's a more achievable goal than thinking about where I'm going to be in five or ten years. That's still too overwhelming a thought for me. If I break life down into small chunks, I'm not stressed, I'm not overwhelmed.
The Breast Cancer Fund's next major expedition is Mt. Kilimanjaro 2002. I hope I might be invited to be on the team . . . much to the chagrin of my family!
And what about your figurative "climbing" as a survivor? What are your thoughts on that?
Well, it doesn't really give me a lot of comfort to know that 60 percent of all women diagnosed with breast cancer are alive in five years. What if I am not in that 60 percent? You know, 40 percent is also a very large number, and I could just as easily be there. So for me to sit back and not continue to fight is just not acceptable. As I said, I don't find much comfort in the numbers when I don't know on what side of the numbers I am going to fall. And I don't want my daughters-in-law and granddaughters to face the same kind of odds.
It's never going to be over; it will always be a part of who I am. But the key is, what are you going to do with it? Are you going to make it a positive thing or let it hold you back?


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'After-birth abortion'
I can't say I know much about medical ethics, so I'll just offer the unlearned opinion that this article in the Journal of Medical Ethics - After-birth abortion: Why should the baby live? - is chilling and creepy, all the more because it is published in a respected forum. It concludes:
If criteria such as the costs (social, psychological, economic) for the potential parents are good enough reasons for having an abortion even when the fetus is healthy, if the moral status of the newborn is the same as that of the infant and if neither has any moral value by virtue of being a potential person, then the same reasons which justify abortion should also justify the killing of the potential person when it is at the stage of a newborn.
The article does not touch on the legal implications - "after-birth abortion" would be murder.Thanks to the Catholic Moral Theology blog for pointing the article out.[Update] And thanks to Charles Camosy for pointing out today's response from the authors of the "After-birth abortion" article:
... we never meant to suggest that after-birth abortion should become legal. This was not made clear enough in the paper. Laws are not just about rational ethical arguments, because there are many practical, emotional, social aspects that are relevant in policy making (such as respecting the plurality of ethical views, peoples emotional reactions etc). But we are not policy makers, we are philosophers, and we deal with concepts, not with legal policy.
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Peter Singer has been arguing this for years. The difference between him and many other philosophers is that he thinks that a baby is only a *potential* person until it can think rationally. This he thinks (or used to think) doesn't happen until the child is around 3 years of age. Yes, the thought of a post=birth abortion is horrible. But, if you think there is a baby in the womb, then that is just as horrible.Singer is actually arguing in a way similar (though not identical) to the basic argument of the Aristotelian scholastics about "ensoulment". They argued that one knows what a thing is by what it does. If a thing does not do rational thinking, then it is not a person. Singer's argument is the same, except that he thinks that rationality doesn't kick in until around age 3.
Singer's original views supporting infanticide (somewhat inconsistently, in my opinion) were about neonates with serious medical problems. What makes this article different is that it is willing to 'go all the way' in comparing abortion to infanticide in claiming that many of reasons for the former also justify that latter. (Incidentally, he now thinks that there is no good legal way to talk about a cutoff point for infanticide, so he is back to birth as the threshold...at least from a public policy perspective.)The authors have received death threats directed at them and their families. Check out the Oxford Practical Ethics blog for information on some of it: http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/
If the pre-natal fetus and the post-natal infant before rationality (age 3 or whatever) have the same moral status n this argument, why i would abortion not be infanticide? Isn't this what the pro-life movement has been arguing for some time now? Am I missing something or is the Singer et. al. argument ironically granting the claim of the pro-life movement about abortion?
That should be "why would: not "why I would" in line 2. The typing demons is at work again.
What I find interesting (and I have written about this elsewhere, too) is that the paper argues there's no real difference between abortion and infanticide, and consequently both should be permitted. On the other hand, many pro-life advocates argue that there's no real difference between infanticide and abortion, so they both should be prohibited. So in an odd kind of way, opposite sides are in agreement in that they both see an equivalence between infanticide and abortion. Some pro-life advocates feel this paper will help their cause, because they hope abortion-rights advocates will accept the paper's argument about the sameness of abortion and infanticide and be so horrified by their alleged equivalence that they will reject not only infanticide, but abortion along with it. Some (myself included) initially suspected the paper was a pro-life hoax. I find it difficult to believe that any abortion-rights supporter who does not already support infanticide (and I assume that is the vast majority) will be convinced they ought to start advocating "infanticide rights." I do find it somewhat disturbing that, so far at least, the pro-life advocates' only argument against the paper is that, yes, abortion and infanticide are equivalent, so you have to either accept or reject both. It seems to me there are arguments to be made by those who believe personhood doesn't begin at conception that it begins earlier than early childhood (that is, at or before birth), and it also seems to me there are arguments to be made against infanticide even for those who believe that a 9-month embryo and a newborn baby have the same moral status as non-persons. I found Clement Ng's comment (Mar 1, 2012 4:32:33 PM) over on Mirror of Justice to be very illuminating. I will not reproduce it here, but it is about using self-conscious rather than "bare consciousness" as a criterion for personhood. I am inclined to think that if a line is to be drawn, it should be at "bare consciousness" (which would be before the third trimester, I am reasonably sure) instead of self-consciousness, which would be some time after birth. Of course, some of the arguments in favor of abortion do not depend on the non-personhood of the unborn, such as the "Famous Violinist" argument. It seems to me that those who accept that argument to justify abortion could definitely not use it to justify infanticide. I would love to see responses and refutations of the paper rather than denunciations of it (or denunciations of the abstract by people who have not read it). It seems to me the way to deal with the paper is to answer it in detail, not just start an Internet campaign expressing alarm that it was published.
I can't believe I wrote that much (and at this hour), but I do have one more thought. I think we need better arguments against this paper than: "Personhood begins at conception, and that's that." It's an argument that has largely been rejected not merely in the United States, but in most or all Western countries (many of whom cover abortions in their national health services). I really don't think anyone is going to be argued into accepting infanticide, but if there is a danger of that, it should be noted that the argument that life begins at conception is not going to work against infanticide if it didn't work against abortion.
Here's the abstract:
AbstractAbortion is largely accepted even for reasons that do not have anything to do with the fetus' health. By showing that (1) both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons, (2) the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant and (3) adoption is not always in the best interest of actual people, the authors argue that what we call after-birth abortion (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9117804/Abortion-article-au... is logically of a piece with the contraception-insurance thing. It's all about making a more efficient, less painful world - a nicer place for humans to live, free from avoidable waste and imperfection.Thoughts are free. We can think whatever we like. In a democracy, if enough people think this way, what's to prevent its becoming embodied in law?
Julian Savulescu asked me to do a response to the article that now appears online (on the Practical Ethics Centre blog and the JME website) and will eventually be expanded, peer-reviewed and in the actual journal.David, it is really fair to say what you are saying given that this is really just an expansion of what I was already saying in the CMT.com piece referenced above? People have been offering all kinds of argument for why infanticide is wrong:http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2012/03/concern-for-our-vulnerable-...
Just speaking for myself here (but hoping others agree), but I think I'll find this thread more thought-provoking and helpful if it retains its original focus on ethical, moral, religious, legal, philosophical issues raised by the article that prompted this post. (As opposed to spreading out to other issues---e.g., contraception, insurance regulations, religious liberty, etc.)
Fair enough, Luke. But it all does come down to politics and laws in the end. Few people would object to any proposition as a proposition; it's when social and legal pressures are being applied that it all becomes suddenly real.
Here is an open letter from the authors, claiming that they weren't talking about politics and law. Hmmmmm.http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2012/03/02/an-open-letter-from-giubi...
David, it is really fair to say what you are saying given that this is really just an expansion of what I was already saying in the CMT.com piece referenced above?Charles,Probably not, and I apologize. What was on my mind when I wrote my message above was comments on various blogs, and the kinds of articles I have been getting when I google the topic. It seems to me there is a "popular" reaction to the article that is somewhat set apart from the "adademic" reaction. Upon rereading my comments above and your piece over on CMT, I see I may have even stolen some of your ideas (unintentionally), although you focused on reasons people might support abortion without subscribing to the "nonperson" theory, and I have been thinking more about how people who subscribe to the "nonperson" theory might support abortion but not infanticide. I have a feeling (although I can't cite any data to prove it) that the average supporter of abortion rights (excluding academics and ethicists) believe that the embryo in early pregnancy, and particularly fertilized human eggs, are not persons.
I submit this with some trepidation:...a nicer place for humans to live, free from avoidable waste and imperfection.I just read 'In the Garden of Beasts' by Erik Larsen and the above is very similar to the Nazi view of the world.
As all of us know-- especially those us who have children or relatives or friends or simply are aware of persons with severe disabilites that were diagnosed near birth -- experiences are unque to each individual and family. I defended a Moral Theology Master's thesis at an unnamed Catholic university in 1973 on "The Morality of Amniocentesis and Responsible Genetic Parenthood" with arguments that I only little appreciated at the time, some of which I believe are still valid and others that were naive and mistaken and that technology has long changed. I won't go into a long posting, but I think this article almost sounds Swiftian-- and is compelling at pointing out the criteria that are used in justifying abortion.However, I don't think the "delayed hominization" has to be entirely discarded as being helpful in the overall discussion.
Abortion is abortion. Murder is murder. We have different words for different things. Calling one the other is wrong, incorrect, inexact, inappropriate. For years people have been calling abortion murder. This is also calling women who have abortions murderers, though most who call abortion murder don't want to execute or imprison for life these women -- and they are legion. Those who call abortion murder realize abortion is unique, a special case. Murder laws don't really apply. The reverse, calling murder abortion, seems like a way of strenghtening the argument that abortion is murder, a coming in the back door, so to speak, and surrounding those who maintain that abortion isn't murder. This also suggests where abortion might go -- to murder. If it does, then it is murder, and we have exact laws for that. Let's use our language precisely, especially in discussing very important issues, like abortion and murder, shedding light rather than generating heat.
Jim,I appreciate your comment about correctly using words to shed light. However, sometimes using different words can also hide the truth. The example you use about abortion and murder is a case in point. If you happen to believe that life begins at conception, then abortion is a subset of murder and replacing abortion with murder continues to be a truthful statement. If you happen to believe that life begins at some other point, then the substitution does not fit. By only using the word abortion, there is the appearance of agreement about the start of life where in fact, none exists. And where life starts is the area of disagreement.
As someone's pointed out, just about the only difference between a fetus and a neonate is the location - inside or outside. Birth may be a politically convenient way to separate abortion from murder, but it doesn't stand up to common sense.Societies need to draw the line somewhere. That really shouldn't be difficult. Compromise and consensus are absolute necessities in democracies. Necessities are possibilities. What's possible can be done.
The article is an interesting expose on the morality of abortion by applying the same arguments used to justify abortion to the case of infanticide. It's a wake up call to where this is all going.God Bless
David N. --I suspect that most people's view that the fetus is not a person/real baby/rational animal in the first trimester at least is a culture-wide assumption held over from the middle ages when the theologians thought that the fetus was NOT a person immediately. The English saw it very particularly, holding that the fetus isn't a person until it is felt to move. (Would that the issue were so simple!) Given their honest belief it does the pro-life cause a huge amount of harm to talk about those people as "murderers". First, it isn't true -- murder requires that one understands and intends what is done, and, second, because we cannot judge their consciences, it is unjust of us to try to do so.I wish Grant would ban such name-calling from this blog.
Given their honest belief it does the pro-life cause a huge amount of harm to talk about those people as murderers. First, it isnt true murder requires that one understands and intends what is done, and, second, because we cannot judge their consciences, it is unjust of us to try to do so.I wish Grant would ban such name-calling from this blog.
Interesting distinction, Ann. What about people who kill grown people they're convinced are less than human? What about people who give orders to kill but don't themselves do the killing?
Definition of murder from Websters: the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought.malice aforethought from Wikipedia:All that was required for malice aforethought to exist is that the perpetrator act with one of the four states of mind that constitutes "malice."The four states of mind recognized as constituting "malice" are:Intent to kill,Intent to inflict grievous bodily harm short of death,Reckless indifference to an unjustifiably high risk to human life (sometimes described as an "abandoned and malignant heart"), orIntent to commit a dangerous felony (the "felony-murder" doctrine).Since abortion is legal, its technically not murder. There may be some doubt about understanding, but there is none about the intent.
"What about people who kill grown people theyre convinced are less than human? What about people who give orders to kill but dont themselves do the killing?"David S. --If the first question refers to Eichmann, then, no, he was not a murderer because he didn't intend to kill any persons, he thought he was killing only non-persons. This means, of course, that he was mad, but not guilty of murder. (No, I don't know what his thoughts really were any more than you do.)At to giving "orders to kill", I have to ask; are you talking about orders to kill persons? I so, then the person who gives the orders is intending the end, and if he knows they are persons, then, yes, he is a murderer.We don't like to think of Eichman as perhaps in Heaven, what he did was so monstrous; But God's forgiveness is also infinite. And lucky for all of us.
Ann, I think you are being way to relativistic and individualistic. Eichmann was killing people in my eyes. That makes him a murderer also in my eyes. We cant construct a moral society based solely on how individuals judge their own actions; that is anarchy. Besides, my experience with humanity is that we can always construct a seemingly rational basis to justify any action we want to undertake. How God judges Eichmann is between those two; they have much more information than any of the rest of us do. But we should be bound to make choices and judgements on the information we have. And that information makes Eichmann a murderer.
Bruce --The Church teaches clearly that to sin one must have the individual, personal, non-relativistic intention to do the deed or avoid doing what ought to be done.NOTE WELL: no intention, no sin. Eichmann said he thought the Jews were "vermin", that is, non-human beings. So IF he was speaking the truth about that, then he wasn't a murderer as the Church (and some laws) describe "murder". (Check out the common law notion of "with malice aforethought.) It makes no difference how you or I *feel* about somebody else's intentions and deeds. Subjectively, it's his/her intention that establish culpability. And don't tell me I'm being relativistic or individualistic by saying something about the killer's innermost thoughts and choices. The Church has never denied the reality of the subjectivity of individuals. On the contrary (with the possible exception of a pope or two) the Church has been the strongest upholder of the reality of the intellect and will and their relevance in moral theory.
I believe Guibilini and Minerva have unwittingly performed a service: Their ethical and intellectual defense of so-called after-birth abortion is not very different from arguments mustered in support of pre-birth abortion. So if one finds their defense of after-birth abortion repugnant, intellectual and moral consistency demands find arguments supporting pre-birth abortion no less repugant. Read more from a lay Christian who was written for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, among other major publications:http://christiandiarist.com/2012/03/06/no-ethical-difference-in-pre-or-p...
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It almost looks as if Apple designed them (it didn't they are from random companies).
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I noticed that as of PHP5, interfaces have been added to the language. However, since PHP is so loosely typed, it seems that most of the benefits of using interfaces is lost. Why is this included in the language?
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The main advantage of interfaces in PHP is that classes can implement multiple interfaces. This allows you to group classes that share some functionality but do not necessarily share a parent class. Some examples might include caching, output, or accessing properties of the class in a certain way.
In your code, you can check if a class implements a given interface instead of checking the class name. Then, your code will still work when new classes are added.
PHP provides some predefined interfaces that may come in handy in various situations: http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.interfaces.php.
EDIT - Adding an example
If you have an interface named MyInterface and you're working with multiple objects of different classes that may or may not share some functionality, interfaces allow you to do something like this:
PHP is loosely typed, but it can be strongly typed about things like method parameters.
Consider the following example:
The above code would output:
Interfaces allow you to implement the open-closed principle, maintain a loosely coupled code base, and implement many of the best OOP design patterns.
For instance, if one class accepts another class as an argument:
Your class A and class B now have a tight coupling, and class A cannot use any other class except B. The type hinting makes sure that you have the correct type of argument, but has now cemented the relationship between A and B.
Lets say that you want class A to be able to use all types of classes that have a run() method however. This is basically (but not quite) the COMMAND design pattern. To solve, you would instead type hint using an interface instead of a concrete class. B would them implement that interface, and will be accepted as an argument for class A. This way class A can accept any class that uses that interface as an argument for its constructor.
This type of coding is used in most OOP design patterns, and allows for MUCH easier changes of code at a later time. These are part of the fundamentals of AGILE programming.
@pjskeptic has a good answer, and @Kamil Tomšík has a good comment on that answer.
The great thing about dynamically typed languages like PHP is that you can try to use methods on objects and it won't scream at you unless the method isn't there.
The issue with dynamically typed languages like PHP is that you can try to use methods on objects and it will scream at you when the method isn't there.
Interfaces add a convenient way of calling methods on an unknown object and being certain that the methods are there (not that they're necessarily correct or going to work). It's not a necessary part of a language, but it makes coding more convenient. It allows strongly typed OOP developers to write strongly typed PHP code, which can then work alongside loosely typed PHP code written by a different PHP developer.
a function like:
is more convenient than:
and IMHO simple, readable code is better code.
They're completely useless if you're duck-typer, actually when you do duck-typing, it's pretty annoying to work with libraries/framework which use any type-hinting.
This applies also for all sorts of dynamic meta-programming (magic methods).
PHP is not loosely or strongly, but dynamically typed.
About interfaces, the first thing you should ask yourself is: what are most of the benefits of interfaces?
In OOP, interfaces are not just about types, but about behaviour as well.
Since PHP also has a type hint feature, you can use interfaces just as you would in a pure oo language, such as Java.
With PHP interface implementation, you cal also create mocks for abstract classes using PHPUnit - and this is a hell of a feature:
So, basically, you can have a SOLID compatible application in PHP by using the language features, one of them being interfaces.
Interfaces are useful for dependency injection much more so than concrete. As a barebones example :
Now say if your needs change and you want to save to a pdf. You could create a a new class for that purpose instead of polluting the Article class.
The Article class now has a contract that classes it uses to save must implement the Istore interface. It does not care where it saves or how it saves.
You can provide "Fake" real objects that implement the interface. You could then unit test a part of your code without requiring real servers, file systems, sockets, databases etc.
It's the only way PHP has to deal with lack of support for multiple inheritance — class can implement multiple interfaces.
Lots of people will probably hate me for answering this way but the solution to your typing problems can be easily fixed with PHP. Yes PHP is loosely typed so types are assumed by default, which can cause some problems, especially in comparison operations which is most peoples problem with it. That being said, PHP can be just as strict as any strongly typed language if you cast what you are using into the type you need it to be, and then use bitwise comparison operators. Here is the easiest example I can think of of what I am saying:
$myVar = (int) 0; $myOtherVar = '0';
comparing ($myVar == $myVar) would equal (bool) true
but comparing ($myVar === $myVar) would equal (bool) false just like any "typed" comparison
I really just wish developers would stop arguing about these things, if you have a problem with the way PHP works either go program in java and live and let live, or use it in the way that it will do what you want it to... What good does bitching about it do for you anyway? Give you an excuse to screw around all day? Make you look better than someone else? Well it's great that you feel so highly about yourself that you're willing to make someone else look bad but in reality it's your preference and forcing your beliefs on anyone really just makes them code in a way they are not comfortable with causing three things:
1) They will code your way but "messy" by your standards (think, have you ever seen a java programmer create their first PHP program or vice versa? It will be the same way changing their methodology or maybe even worse.)
2) You will find something else to whine about
3) It will probably take longer for them to produce. And maybe it will make you look better in the short term, but the team as a whole will look worse for it (remember you may code slower than someone else and that's not necessarily bad as long as the team meets deliverables in a reasonable timeframe, but forcing your habits on someone who has typically performed a little faster may end up making your whole team slow down thus, look worse in a very demanding workflow)
I personally prefer writing procedural PHP code although I can, and have, written full programs using OOP in a few different languages. That being said, I have seen good OOP code and bad OOP code, and good procedural code and bad procedural code for that matter... It really has nothing to do with the practice, but with the habits that you use and even then, a lot of things are my interpreted feelings... that does not mean I am going to talk bad about those developers or say brag with "my way is best" B.S., it's just right for me, and the company I work for is pretty happy with my work and I'm proud of that. There are reasons a standard should be established but what you include in the standard you choose is VERY important... Thanks for letting me get that off my chest. Have a great day.
Examples: You need to cache your data. How? There is a lot of different engines for caching, which one is the best? Who cares if you have abstract layer which have some ICacheDriver interface with a set of methods like key, get, put, clear, etc. Just implement to it what you need in current project and change it when you need another. Or simple usage of toString. You have a set of different showable objects. You just implement Stringable interface (which describes toString method [there is no really interfaces like that in PHP, but for example]) and just interating over all your object with (string)$obj. There is all you need to do instead of switch (true) { case $obj isntanceof A1: "do 1"; break; ... }
Simple. So there is no question "Why?". There is "how to use that better?". ;-) Good luck.
My guess.
PHP is used by many entry level programmers, entry level programmers are taught java in college.
After their Programming 101 course they start nagging Zend they want java features because that's the way they have been taught to think, an thinking on your own terms (or understanding duck typing) it's hard, when you're only 20.
Zend is pragmatic, it's easier to add the feature other than to pretend they where right all along.
Another instance of this process? People fresh out of .NET and Java courses also want Frameworks of Foundation Classes, they nag about it until Zend sprouts out the Zend Framework. This buys in even more users. And on and on...
(the only language feature the PHP team is known to have struggled against, over the years, is


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In how many ways can I have $1.50 using exactly 50 Coins? The coins may be pennies (1 cent), nickels (5 cents), dimes (10 cents) or quarters (25 cents).
Suppose that you use $p$ pennies, $n$ nickels, $d$ dimes, and $q$ quarters; then $p,n,d$, and $q$ must satisfy the system
$$\left\{\begin{align*} &p+n+d+q=50\\ &p+5n+10d+25q=150\;. \end{align*}\right.\tag{1}$$
Thus, you want to count the solutions to $(1)$ in non-negative integers.
The problem is small enough that you can easily solve by hand mostly using brute force. First, subtracting the first equation in $(1)$ from the second gives us the condition $$4n+9d+24q=100\;,\tag{2}$$
from which it's clear that $q\le 4$.
Suppose that $q=4$; then $4n+9d=100-24\cdot4=4$, which clearly has only the solution $n=1,d=0$. At this point we've used four quarters, no dimes, and one nickel, for a total of $105$ cents from $5$ coins, and setting $p=45$ clearly gives the unique solution with $q=4$.
Now suppose that $q=3$, so that $(2)$ reduces to $4n+9d=28$. Clearly $d\le 3$. But both $4n$ and $28$ are divisible by $4$, while $9d$ is not for $0<d\le 3$, so we must have $d=0$ and $n=7$. We've now used $10$ coins that total $110$ cents, and it's clear that setting $p=40$ gives us the unique solution with $q=3$.
Now suppose that $q=2$, so that $(2)$ reduces to $4n+9d=52$. Then $d\le 5$, and we can argue as in the previous case that $9d$ must be a multiple of $4$, so either $d=0$ and $n=13$, or $d=4$ and $n=4$. In the first case we have $15$ coins that total $115$ cents, and we must set $p=35$; in the second we have $10$ coins that total $110$ cents, and we must set $p=40$. These are clearly the only solutions when $q=2$.
If $q=1$, $(2)$ reduces to $4n+9d=76$, so that $d\le 8$. As in the previous two cases we must have $4\mid d$, so $d$ must be $0,4$, or $8$. These lead to the following solutions: $q=1,d=0,n=19,p=30$; $q=1,d=4,n=10,p=35$; and $q=1,d=8,n=1,p=40$.
Finally, if $q=0$, $(2)$ becomes $4n+9d=100$, the feasible values of $d$ are again $0,4$, and $8$, and the resulting solutions are: $q=0,d=0,n=25,p=25$; $q=0,d=4,n=16,p=30$; and $q=0,d=8,n=7,p=35$.
Thus, there are precisely $10$ solutions, and we've not just counted them, but also found them.
Let me try a generating function approach (first time trying, apologies if it is wrong):
The solution can be found within: $g=(f_1)(f_5)(f_{10})(f_{25})$.
An explanation of why it works:
Calculation by hand is not recommended.
Edit: In view of Soloveichik answer, this is how one might do it in Mathematica:
The total number of ways of forming $1.50 using these coins can be calculated in GAP via:
which returns 680.
With the additional restriction of there being exactly 50 coins, it can be found via:
The 10 possibilities are listed below as
The partitions themselves can be computed using:
Small examples of this sort of problem can be written out. In this case, start with the two equations:
$$p + 5n + 10d + 25q = 150$$ $$p+n+d+q = 50$$
Subtracting, we get:
$$4n + 9d + 24q = 100$$
Notice that since $9$ and $24$ are divisible by $3$ then $100-4n$ must be as well, so $n=3n'+1$ for some $n'$ and we get:
$$12n' + 4 + 9d + 24q = 100$$ or $$4n' + 3d + 8q = 32$$
Now we see that $d$ must be divisible by $4$, so we let $d=4d'$ and we have the equation:
$$n' + 3d' + 2q = 8$$
That is a much easier problem to solve by brute force.
Once you have a solution to this, you have solution to the original by taking:
$$(p,n,d,q) = (50-(3n'+1)-4d'-q, 3n'+1,4d',q)$$
So you need to find all nonegative solutions to: $$n'+3d'+2q = 8$$ with the added condition that $50-(3n'+1)-4d'-q\geq 0$. That last condition turns out to not affect the problem since it is true for all positive solutions.
You are looking for solutions of $$\tag1p+5n+10d+25q=150$$ $$\tag2p+n+d+q=50$$ in non-negative integers $p,n,d,q$.
Any amount $m$ combinable with nickels and dimes is nonnegative and divisible by 5 and uses between $\frac m{10}$ and $\frac m5$ coins. And on the other hand, for any nonnegative amount $m$ divisible by $5$ and $k$ with $5k\le m\le 10k$, there is a unique way to have $m$ cents in $k$ coins that are nickels and dimes. To see this, start with $\frac m5$ nickels and decrease the number of coins one by one (by replacing two nickels with a dime) untl you have the desired number of coins. One observes that this produces $\frac m5-k$ dimes and $2k-\frac m5$ nickels.
Thus we are looking for pairs $(p,q)$ with $p,q\ge0$, such that $150-p-25q$ is a nonnegative multiple of 5 and $5(50-p-q)\le 150-p-25q\le 10(50-p-q)$. The latter inequality is equivalent to $$\tag3 9p-15q\le 350$$ and $$\tag4 4p-20q\ge 100 .$$ Because $150-p-25q$ must be a multiple of $5$, $p$ must be a multiple of $5$. Hence write $p=5p'$. Then (3) and (4) become (after dividing out common factors) $$\tag5 q-3p'\ge -23$$ $$\tag6 p'-q\ge 5$$ And the nonnegativeness of $150-p-25q$ translates to $$\tag 7 -p'-5q\ge-30.$$ From $(5)+3\cdot(6)$, we conclude $-2q\ge -8$, i.e. $q\le 4$ With $q=0$, we obtain $5\le p'\le 7$ from (5) and (6). With $q=1$, we obtain $6\le p'\le 8 $. With $q=2$, we obtain $7\le p'\le 8 $. With $q=3$, we obtain $8\le p'\le 8 $. With $q=4$, we obtain $9\le p'\le 9 $. In all cases, (7) holds as well, thus we find a total of $3+3+2+1+1=10$ possible soluitons.
Explicitly, we have the following solutions for $(p,n,d,q)$:
$(25, 25, 0, 0)$, $(30, 16, 4, 0)$, $(35, 7, 8, 0)$, $(30, 19, 0, 1)$, $(35, 10, 4 ,1)$, $(40, 1, 8, 1)$, $(35, 13, 0 ,2)$, $(40, 4, 4, 2)$, $(40, 7, 0, 3)$, $(45, 1, 0, 4)$.
In Maple:
$f := \frac{1}{(1-tx)(1-tx^5)(1-tx^{10})(1-tx^{25})}:$
$T := taylor(f, x = 0, 151): $
$T150 := coeff(T, x, 150):$
Answer: 10
I'm assuming that Douglas' GAP link is probably not easy to understand/implement so here's my explanation.
I'm not sure if there's a good way to solve these change-making problems by hand. The most common solution (that I know of) is algorithmic. Specifically, dynamic programming seems to be a "standard" solution. Since you have an extra constraint of precisely 50 coins you would need to do a bit extra for your DP. In particular, you'd first solve the general problem of the number of ways to form \$1.50 using those coins. Then you'd implement the DP so that you could produce the actual sets of coins that sum to \$1.50 (this is usually just a backtracking step after you finish filling in the memoization table). Finally you can filter those sets by size.


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I heard a women described as "una estafa" in Spanish (from Spain) and my translation is roughly "a fraud". So, beyond being a fraud, does the speaker mean anything else in regards to her deceptiveness, her sneakiness, her personality, or motivation? I am just trying to gauge whether the comment was made as an observation or more strongly as a criticism. Thanks.
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In the context you are defining this woman as a "Deceiver" (Engañadora, Farsante o Truquera, etc.).
I would say that when you refer to a person, male or female, as "una estafa" is merely because you think that person is not how you think he/she was in the first place or how that person was described to you initially. I believe this kind of talking refers to criticism regarding personality.
Bear in mind that this doesn't mean, IMO, that the person is a scammer or a con man / woman. In that case you would use "es un(a) estafador(a)".
For what you are saying, I would think more in something like a "fake person" in the sense that some one who is not who he pretends to be.
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