Why Borges refuses "to argue or to judge"

By any measure Borges was a great writer of short stories - innovative, influential, and original w a style immediately recognizable and a world view intellectual and austere - and yet and yet ... There is a coldness and unapproachability about his writing and even beneath the playfulness of some of his conceits an off-putting cruelty. I'm thinking in particular of the third Borges story that r g davis included in his shoe story anthology - The Intruder. If you read the story through just its plot and circumstances it may appear to be just a legend of the argentine pampas - much like a story of the west in North American lit or like a tale of the sea in British lit. He begins by framing the story - it's something he's heard from a few sources says the narrator and we are left to discern truth from legend   But as tomthenstory - it is of two roughneck brothers one of whom comes home one day w a woman (are they married? I can't remember) and the younger bro falls in love w her. For a time they share the woman but this becomes unmanageable and they talented to another village and sell her into prostituition. The brothers each sneak off at separately over time to buy her services so to speak but over time they realize this subterfuge is driving the two of them apart so they kill her and crudely dispose of her body end of story. You tell me- what does it mean that we hear not a word from her that she is just chattel that there is no approbation nor is there a jot of sympathy that the narrator or anyone else expresses throughout this story. At best we can say that perhaps in a subtle way the unspoken horror is a great condemnation of this way of life but I can't help but think the misogyny is inherent in the story, that Borges himself is unwilling to argue or to judge not because he know too much but because he feels too little.