To escape blame, don't be a hero—Be a victim

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Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality (2012, background): “This finding contradicts the belief in a just world (Lerner, 1980), as does the finding that victims receive less blame than both do-gooders and the average person (Gray & Wegner, 2011b).”
Sexual Objectification Increases Rape Victim Blame and Decreases Perceived Suffering (2013, background): “The perpetrator bears the moral responsibility for the act, and the victim possesses the moral rights that have been violated (K. Gray & Wegner, 2009, 2011a, 2011b).”
A Superhumanization Bias in Whites’ Perceptions of Blacks (2015, background): “Work on moral typecasting (Gray & Wegner, 2009, 2011) shows that perceiving humans (e.g., Gandhi and Mother Theresa) and nonhuman entities (e.g., God) to have advanced capacities for agency (e.g., thinking, planning, and doing) reduces perceptions of these figures (compared to entities perceived to…”