But the point is..

In the garden of Eden, if Eve ate the apple today, there'd be a thousand cameras rolling to cover the original shot..yikes...original sin.
There'd be 101 reconstructions of the act and all Adam and Eve's friends and cousins would have been interviewed on how they feel and how they are going to fund the project- Save Adam and Eve.
There'd be several blow by blow reports on happenings each day and 1001 industries would have sprung up. Information industry boom bringing the info of what's going on. Food industry boom serving you an apple like the one Eve had eaten or serving something she'd never tried. Entertainment industry boom producing movies on the lives of Adam and Eve or the way they brought diversity(by eating the apple that is) or the way they brought doom( again, by eating the apple).
Point is, there are zillion other useful information available, million other food items to delight your taste buds and trillion other things to entertain you.
Adam and Eve chose apple because regardless of whether less or more, they knew about the apple tree.

One of the deep roots of human nature is a curious fact, when we know something we become it.
It's amazing how the knowledge of good and evil didn't make us righteous but it made us more prone to guilt, first of having the fruit and then prone to all the evil that we were capable of but didn't know before and knew it now. So, even if we do or do not commit something wrong, it's a part of our systems just through the knowledge of it.
It's everywhere around me, it drives my gestures, it drives my thoughts it drives my life. It drives me.
But what if I had missed the point completely and had to look somewhere else to be really free of it!To be really me!

What could a man possibly do if he knew he could do just anything..anything he can imagine and that there's nothing to stop him from doing that thing?
Could he have murdered? Could he have raped? Or could he have dedicated himself to create the greatest piece of art? Or could he have created a life saving solution helping million other lives? If it doesn't chill your spine in excitement of probabilities at least about yourself, please don't read further.

What is freedom then and what does it really mean to be free?Does it mean not to have prohibition when I think something, do something, say something? Apparently yes, but what if my freedom obstructed someone else's freedom.
You see, to be really free, I have to free from others freedom also!
I should be free to do, say, think,act, be however I want and this should not stop someone else's saying, thinking, acting, being in whatever form and shape they want.
But inherently, how is that possible, we are all wired right?
We are people essentially linked to each other and how can we exist not influencing each other, not only in thoughts but also in deeds?
A person strangling and killing another person would be a murder but what would you call the phenomenon when someone is inspired to take his own life after listening someone speak of liberation in suicide or after watching a movie or reading  a book.
Will you call that a murder or at least an instigation?
No, because the influence (read: strangling) is invisible.

If I had guessed right, you had read through even after me telling you not to read further without a chilling spine! There maybe a rare few who'd take the advice and won't reach till this point. What does that mean? Answer is: Nothing. That's just a statistic.
Likewise, going back to the talk of influence, if we break our heads thinking how can we NOT influence another?
Answer is: Actually it doesn't matter, we're asking a wrong, unrelated question.

Point is, the invitation to freedom is also invisible. Seems rather ordinary and even pointless in the world of propaganda. But the point is, unless you find that seemingly unappealing point, you'd never know the truth behind the propaganda and hack yourself with unrelated questions.
So, there was a propaganda in the tree of good and evil and there's a zillion propaganda around us today.  The truth or the actual point in this case, however, is singular.
It existed then that day, in the garden of Eden and it exists now, everywhere around you.
The fact on that day was the same as it is today. Life was not in or around the apple tree, life was somewhere else. Life is not in or around the propaganda, life is somewhere else.

*Disclaimer: Ah yes, this ain't a milk hungry baby of a movement to introduce freedom, so a kind suggestion, might sound a tad bit rude but don't waste your energy personifying this. You might end up influencing another!
It might be a waste of time too, well ummm, maybe it's based on whether or not you have a life already :-P