Morality... who's in control?

My thoughts:
Attempting to control the moral behaviors of others has caused society to suffer grave consequences. For many years laws have been enacted that allow for individual privacy to be infringed upon and for aggression to be utilized as a method of controlling the non-violent behaviors of others. Governments have assumed the role of a moral authority and pass moral laws. Force is used to seek compliance of moral laws. This is evidenced by governments passing and aggressively enforcing laws against such activities as drug use, prostitution, and gambling. The passing and aggressive enforcement of such laws essentially dictate to citizens that they have no right to their own life. If an individual has no reason to hold a value other than because it is mandated by law, then he will also have little or no knowledge of how to pursue and maintain that value nor any incentive to discover the reasons. He will seek further mandated guidance because he does not know or even care to learn how to lead a virtuous life.
Some human acts that have no victims become criminalized because they are morally repugnant to the rest of society. As a result, society chooses to restrain individuals from partaking in the acts. The criminal justice system becomes an enforcer of moral standards. The cost of the legal control of non-violent, victimless crime tends to be expensive and ineffective. The waging of war against non-violent, victimless crime has demonstrated the impossibility of creating a system of law grounded in morals, rather than in principle.
Until society fully acknowledges that individuals are free to arbitrarily choose what they want as a value and do so at their own peril, the consequences will not only continue, but increase drastically.