In aesthetics, there is a great emphasis placed on horizons to be leveled (especially when there isn't an intention to unsettle the image somewhat). On the surface, this sounds perfectly reasonable. The human perceptions are reputedly so fine-tuned that humans are able to perceive when a photo is tilted.
This is all well and good until you realize that the human idea of level is not so much a perfectly horizontal true horizon, but a perceptual imaginary horizon that is drawn even when the picture isn't leveled. All in all, it is probably an evolutionary step to allow humans to be able to stand upright with reference to that imaginary horizon. It's terrible in other contexts, especially when you know that you didn't tilt anything, but everyone else insists that something is tilted in a shot.
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