Sarajevo was a man-made hell on earth. It went on for so long that there were several underground businesses set up in Europe to cater to man-hunting/sniping/torture tourism. If you wanted to indulge the worse extremes of sex you went to Bangkok. If you wanted to murder and/or torture humans you went to Bosnia.

The sniping was arranged much as safaris are run in Africa. Fly in, bring your own gun, or they will provide one, for a price, and they arrange for a blind set up on favorable sight lines. Guides protect you from the worse of the danger, optimize your odds of getting a shot, and provide amenities. A service industry with smiles, back slapping, good times, and profits. One based on murdering people for fun and profit. Made possible by the near complete lack of law, order, humanity, empathy, and compassion.

A shark might bite you. A bear can maul you. But no other animal makes a science and art of gratuitously inflicting suffering and death on humans. And then compounds the evil by making a business and charging admission to arrange for others to do it.

That sort of greed, exploitation and depravity makes me wonder what the point is. If humanity was judged on this alone we wouldn't stand a chance. I'm heartened somewhat by the reports of real heroism, nobility, and resourcefulness within Sarajevo.