Treating enemies better, he hoped, might prove a stepping-stone to turning the other cheek. “We must leave to war all its horrors, as the only way to open the eyes of those who order it and those who pay the price,” a Lyons doctor had complained of the Red Cross project of humanizing unnecessary evil. Moynier responded that such an objection, taken to an extreme, would imply the abolition of all army medical services, not merely the backup the Red Cross hoped to provide.
