System trust operates regardless of individual motivation or readiness.

Evidence

We have already, in the chapter on system trust, encountered forms of relatively inevitable trust formation, which must function to a large extent regardless of individual motivational structures, and which furthermore are not controlled from outside but internally, within the systems which demand trust. Their security of function, and also the possibility of creating trust in trust, depend on this indifference. Thus the question as to the structures and processes of the systems which bestow trust recedes and becomes less meaningful; it does not depend so much on the readiness to trust. The trusting systems are, as it were, relieved of responsibility for their trust. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 299

Categorization

• XREF: This ‘relieved of responsibility’ mechanism is the precise formal account of Stevens’s abdication: the trusting system is internally self-securing and indifferent to individual moral readiness — connects directly to Giddens’s faceless commitments.
• SEED: Angle for an essay: institutional indifference to moral readiness as the precise mechanism of ethical abdication in Ishiguro — the system’s internal self-security replaces personal judgment.