There's a line in Studio Ghibli's 1997 masterpiece Princess Mononoke--my favorite of the studio's catalog of classic animated films--which has always stuck with me since the first time I heard it. After the lead character Ashitaka is banished from his village because of the cursed mark that has begun to consume his body, he finds himself in Iron Town, speaking with the leader of the industrious city, Lady Eboshi. She thanks him for saving two of her men who were recently inju