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Most good stories involve choice and loss. I personally think that stories with impossible choices a la Antigone are the best ones. Unforseen consequences are high on my list, too. Perhaps a story with a very unexpected ending? Think Gift of the Magi or The Necklace for this sort of inspiration and adapt to fit your interests. Making the story contemporary would add a nice twist to it...
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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