That's how I think of it too.
I have been wanting to hunt deer for a while now as I have been increasingly focused on self sufficiency and sustainability. I have jumped through the crown's hoops even though I find it absurd that I should have to pay for permission to hunt an animal on my property. Being my property I have a vested interest in seeing it sustained and maintained and that includes the wildlife. I would do so because it's in my interests, not because some politician of the crown has mandated a set of rules. As my interest is grocery shopping, and not sport to engage in some primitive competition with an animal, I would only harvest that which I can and will save and use, I really don't care about silly rules like being a minute or two past some arbitrarily declared clock time. My focus is on a humane kill.
I also see things like using corn as a means to train the deer to go to a location where I can get a reliable shot in a safe direction. Quite frankly, there is so much power trip political BS involved that I plan to only hunt on my property and I would really like to get where I can process a deer myself so as to keep the process private.
I agree, the OP's situation sounds like an honest mistake, and now he's going to face a stupid legal system whose biggest function is extorting money from the honest people for making stupid mistakes by claiming they owe a debt to "society" and it's just a convenience that the funds go to the politician's coffers.
I had a coworker, who is now retired, who liked to duck hunt. He told a story about accidentally getting one too many as he hit multiple ones with one shot. He said he was carrying that extra one down low, with one finger and if he saw the GW it was simply going to get dropped. Accidents happen. The govt getting to declare you owe it money because of it, is absurd. As to your speeding analogy on my way to the office this morning, I spotted a cop tucked away in the trees fuzzing traffic. They like to argue that it's about safety, but if the goal is to slow people down, being out in the open will have a much greater impact than hiding in the trees and socking one pour soul for $250 payable to the govt.