1. Protection from authoritarians who want to seize the products of your life - just like the democrat slave owners in the US, who believed that their need was justification for seizing the lives of slaves
2. Avoidance of capital controls imposed by those authoritarians
3. Protection from the ravages of inflation caused by terrible polices like those above
4. Inability to censor - unlike banks, fiat, centralize crypto
5. Decentralization
6. Anonymity - more anonymity as time progresses with various upgrades to the software
7. Micropayments via second layers

In short, protection of your freedom and liberty from those who want the power to control you and the power to decide how you should live your life.  Protection of the smallest minority in the world - the individual - from the power of the majority who may believe that the minority of one has to bend to the will of a majority because they hold a gun.