>It's to tell someone to do something that they themself think is beneath them and would never think of doing that is insulting.
Yes, you are right. I hadn't understood that part at first.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
