With real crimes – that is, actions that result in real harm to real people – it is easy enough to objectively define the crime.
You either did – or didn’t take something that belongs to someone else.
You either did – or did not – hurt someone else.
If you did, then it’s right and reasonable that you – the causer of the harm – be held accountable.
“Speeding,” on the other hand, is an odd sort of crime.
In most cases, no harm has been caused to anyone. A statute has been offended, nothing more.
To whom must the “guilty” party make amends?
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