Why was Adam exempt from the transgression when the transgression was disobedience?

[Esquilax]

Which is all beside the point, because Genesis 3 is nothing but God deliberately entrapping these two ignorant children. He punishes them for committing a sin, even though they had no idea what good or evil was. The act for which they were punished was learning that it is wrong to disobey God. To punish people for something they literally cannot know is wrong is not just injustice, but perhaps the very worst sort of injustice imaginable.

And we're supposed to believe that God's judgement is infallible. Anybody who insists that it is can just gtfo, seriously.

And if you read the story completely literally, while omitting all of the nouns, it reads like an account of an incestuous, child abusing pedophile punishing his kids because they learned that the family across the street let their kids wear clothes, so why can't they?

It's immoral both as a factual story, and as a metaphor. It's one of the grossest pieces of fiction ever, and yet it's the cornerstone of a popular belief system.