Diffuse responsibility across many players enables almost limitless blame-shifting.

Evidence

In sum, given the multitude of players doing their bit in widely dispersed systems under veiled authorization, the capacity for self-exoneration by shifting blame elsewhere is almost boundless. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 868

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the reader’s core interest: how complex bureaucracies let any single participant deny moral agency — same mechanism Cooper’s social-conservatism argument presupposes, and a key step in Bandura’s disengagement model.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 868