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>speeding causes actual deaths of members of society

Ok? Heart disease kills more, from which obesity is a factor. How about I make an app that encourages users to snap pictures of people in public (totally legal) who are eating a big mac?

If we save even one life, it's worth it right?

On the other hand, maybe deploying technology at scale to encourage random people to police others is bad.

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>How about I make an app that encourages users to snap pictures of people in public (totally legal) who are eating a big mac?

You eating a big mac isn't a threat to me, my family or my friends.

This attempt to portray all speeding as some kind of victimless morality crime is truly bizarre. Speeding is more akin to firing a gun into the air and then crying "Why are you persecuting me? I'm not harming anyone"

This is not a charitable response. Vehicles accidents often harm the innocent in a random fashion (the only way to avoid being impacted by dangerous drivers would be to never go near a road) but the victim of heart disease is also the perpetrator in your case.

The perpetrator might be the primary victim, but what about dependents? Collectively as a society we’re all harmed by the sky high heart disease death toll. It makes COVID look like a picnic, but we do so little about it.

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