it's how banks prevent someone from withdrawing money from your account without your permission, everywhere across the entire globe at once, all the time.
it's the same reason that I, a normal user, can't delete people from active directory at work, or change their passwords to mess with them.
you've dealt with this kind of permission system your entire computer-using life. you know how it works. you know what it is. being distributed doesn't matter at all.
We live in a time where any form of centralized authority is increasingly abused. Blockchain prevents this. It also prevents incompetence as we also live in a time where centralized data and credentials are regularly leaked or hacked with no recourse available.