Actually not close at all because laws can reinforce both and the lack of laws can also reinforce both. Like, for example, outlawing slavery and helping former slaves financially (even though that didn’t happen) is a step toward a society based on care, and outlawing homosexuality is society based on punishment. Letting prisons be profit-dependent contributes to a society of punishment, and letting homeless people exist in public without the risk of being arrested for vagrancy or loitering is