PZ discusses civilized behavior on the same page as he recommends that everyone should throw shoes at George W Bush as a tradition. That's... well, liberal of him.
He congratulates Australia on its decision to teach humanism and humanist ethics in its schools, presumably as a substitute for religion. He doesn't say which humanist ethic he thinks would be the right one though, so they should probably teach them all and let the kids sort them out. Although PZ is generally against the idea of letting students sort anything out for themselves, like arguments for the improbability of evolution, and such. Interesting thing about humanism: it wants humans to be rational and make up their own minds - as long as it's within the bounds set by humanists. Any departure from those bounds constitutes irrationality and hate, and merits derision at the very least, shoes thrown at it preferably.
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