Dude, WTF. You blame Brandon’s parents for his failure?
Honestly, part of parenting is molding character. They took it away and he didn’t deal with it normally.
Some very respected parenting experts tell parents to respond to their children exactly the way Brandon’s father did. “You can’t go without your bags packed”… He did nothing wrong short of taking away the xbox 360 too late.
If your parents never restricted you by removing something then they had different tactics. BUT, if a parent decides to restrict something, it’s a completely viable and effective form of character building and boundary creation.