Structured system security lets individuals drop per-action safety precautions.

Evidence

Whether readiness to trust is achieved more through emotion or more through flexibility of self-presentation, in every case it rests on the structure of the system which confers trust. Only because the security of the system is structurally guaranteed is it possible to do away with the safety precautions for particular actions in specific situations. Readiness to trust is an important instance of the general rule that the absorption of complexity through structures can relieve the burden of action. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 297

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clean statement of Luhmann’s core mechanism: complexity absorption through structural guarantees reduces action burden — the bridge to Giddens’s faceless commitments.
• XREF: Directly undergirds the reader’s Ishiguro thesis: Stevens delegates safety to the Darlington household structure, freeing himself from individual moral precaution — system trust enabling ethical abdication.