These practices of the Kshatriyas are sinful; but, alas, we are born in Kshatriya families and whether such practices are virtuous or the reverse; any other course of life would not be right!
पापः क्षत्रियधर्मोऽयं वयं च क्षत्रबन्धवः। स नः स्वधर्मोऽधर्मों वा वृत्तिरन्या विगर्हिता।॥