Exactly.
On a related note, an open and free society often appears more evil, more greedy, corrupt, and selfish — this contributes to our vulnerability to appeals for the government to “do something.”
Never a good idea.
The terrorists, for example, claim to be motivated, in part, by the fact that America culture is “evil.” To the extent our culture is “evil,” it’s not because our culture is open and free, but because, like all human beings, we share in the nature that, left to its own devices, tends toward evil.
In an open and free society, the nature of the human condition may be more apparent. But it is not more evil in the quantitative sense.
One Pearl of Wisdom I like comes from R. Buckminster Fuller. Most don’t know who he is but I bet you do. He said, “Free enterprise has the unique ability to transform the selfish desires of the individual into a good for the whole.” That explains it about as well as it can be explained.