The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.

I don't have to know what good you have done, and I don't want to know what bad you have done.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

I think the wish to disassociate from the cult of self is a good human impulse,

Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.