​Are terrorists like snakes who deserve to be killed without trial and who don’t deserve last rites?

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So question Prabhupada said that poison snakes should be killed so can we say that terrorists are poison snakes and should be killed without being given lawyer should terrorists be given proper funeral as per their religion answer there are two different things over here that there are poison snakes who should be killed that’s something talked about in the Bhagavatam sarpa api vishchika modita hatya so that sadhopi modita so basically that when a snake or scorpion is killed even the saintly they rejoice at the same time if we are not saintly we don’t have a right to kill anyone like that indiscriminately and when very often when we assume that somebody is a terrorist it’s not that every terrorist is equally dark black now some terrorist may be drafted unwittingly into a cause and then they just get entangled and they can’t come out some terrorist may be outright malevolent meant how to destroy everyone so there has to be a due process of law followed for dealing with situations now of course if there is a war going on at that time there may be shoot at sight orders but in general to brand everyone who is associated with the terrorist organization as a poison snake that is a quite often a incomplete and incorrect vision and the due process of law needs to be followed for punishment of which of course may not necessarily apply when there are emergencies or when there are wars going on and as far as proper funeral that is something which will again vary according to time place circumstance we see that in the Ramayana Lord Ram arranges for the proper funeral of Ravana also and Vibhishan is reluctant to perform the funeral rites of Ravana because he says this was such a wicked demon who abducted Sita but Ram says that the soul is ultimately pure and no resentment should be held against the soul so at Ram’s instruction Vibhishan does perform the funeral rites for