After finishing this book, I feel enlightened. Not only that, but I think that Milgram's experiments and analysis of said experiments needs to be put on blast in our present day. He was able to get at such a core human trait that carries a dangerous risk to our own survival and humanity.
Having knowledge of these experiments and their outcomes allows us to inspect our own behavior to authority and when we should be defiant to authority, rather than to act against our own conscious. How can there be so many reports of people who acted 'on orders' even though they themselves disagreed with those orders? This book and Stanley Milgram's experiments can tell you why.
It can tell you how people who may not themselves act with brutally are an accessory to these acts because of their position. They do not lay hands on anyone. They do not see themselves as responsible, but they are a part of a hierarchical system.
The findings from these experiments are remarkable, but not enough of us know about them and what they tell us. I encourage anyone to read this. It is a bit scientific, but not too bad. Milgram's voice is a very gentle and humane one.