"It's not hard for the the author to see where this goes"Looks like he's trying to impress someone with how reasonable he is. Wife, girlfriend, etc.
IOW, maybe he's just trying to get laid. Still no excuse for this garbage.
More likely he's a writer with a liberal education who likes to hunt, but is trying to convince his liberal writer friends that he's not not some kind of bloodthirsty Neanderthal and more importantly, he's not one of "those" people.
He needs to make new friends.