I've never understood that concept, that people should be forced into giving up things they enjoy, just so others can continue to behave badly around them.

... I don't know how to respond to this without seeming to validate the implication that because I think LW should not have grabbed this child that I think the children or their mother are blameless or justified in their manifestly horrible behavior. I think LW was absolutely in the right to throw them all out of his house, not least because they were endangering it by throwing things into the firepit.